June 5 in the publishing house "Exmo" published an art book by Pavel Astakhov - Detective "Network", dedicated to the "death groups". The protagonist of the novel is a lawyer who accidentally learns about the mysterious suicide of a teenage girl who was in a closed group with a blue whale on an avatar. The lawyer "succeeds in penetrating into the very heart of the virtual" death group "and reaching out to those for whom the suicide of teenagers has become a monstrous hobby and sadistic entertainment". In the announcement of the book it is said that its main conclusion is "Take care of your children! ". In the promoric, the books of the administrators of the "death groups" are compared to the Pied Piper from a fairy tale that lured children into a trap. "New Pied Piper have appeared today.

They lure children with completely different music. They talk with teenagers in a language they understand. They create enticing, beautiful images. Blue whales, unicorns, colorful butterflies call teenagers uncomfortable in the real world, "says the former children's ombudsman. This is not Astakhov's first book: he has already written several detective stories about lawyers, among them "Bride", "Rider" and "Spy".

Original article: Pavel Astakhov wrote a detective about "death groups".