A mysterious murder has occurred in St. Petersburg—an axe-wielding man appears out of nowhere and kills a journalist. Mishka and his neighbor Vera travel to St. Petersburg, where, working with the police, they try to track down the killer. Who is he? How does he manage to move around the city undetected? And what does the drug 'Dvoitsa,' which the detective encountered in Moscow, have to do with it? Mishka must once again solve a sophisticated crime, but this time, it's not just her life that's in danger. 'The Hunt' is the second part of Maxim Sonin's detective trilogy about sixteen-year-old detective Mishka Mironova.