The real shock for sleepy Vseslavsk is the mass murder in a suburban restaurant, which the press immediately dubbed the "apiary massacre." Once upon a time there was an apiary on this place, the owner of which died under mysterious circumstances. All the visitors and two employees were shot with hunting carbines. A surviving employee says that an emergency happened in the restaurant in the morning: a swarm of bees ruined all the desserts. Is it related to the tragedy, or is it a strange coincidence? It came as a complete surprise to Lika that not all the victims died from bullets. Plant poison was found in the blood of several people. They were all eating dessert. But where did it come from if the desserts had to be thrown away in the morning? In the investigation of this case, the key piece of evidence will be a note in which Talic finds an unusual detail.…