Aleksey Aptovtsev

One of the guests shot to death during a meeting of former classmates in a luxurious country house. Investigator Oleg Koshkin arrives at the crime scene. All who were present at the party are under suspicion.

Alexey Kupriyanov, nicknamed Cooper, lives in the Arsenal, one of the industrial districts of the Russian hinterland. His life changes after the murder of his friend in order to conduct his own investigation, and Captain Kupriyanov leaves the operations department and becomes a district inspector. Everything in his Arsenal is his own, his own: his ex-wife with her problems, his son in transition, the beautiful girls, the locals who turn to him for help, and even the bandits who terrorize the town. But Cooper is not a timid person, and he knows exactly how to deal with all this...

A poker player and expert in psychology investigates cases in an unorthodox way.

The story of the teenage love of a schoolboy Robert to Milka, the girlfriend of the ataman of the Zamoskvoretsky punks. The background for this romantic line is the stories of neighbors, communal intrigues, war memories — everything that is so familiar to the post-war generation of Muscovites.