That was new. Liadov had never gone out of his way to oversee the autopsies before.

"You don't have to stay," Rakitin told him in an undertone. "I'll give you a full report. I won't miss anything."

He couldn't be thrilled about this development, what with having had enough of a relation to Isaev to request that Polya conduct the interview on his own. However, he'd confessed that it had been a long time, and anyway it was the other brother he'd known better.

Very well, apparently.

Regardless, Nika wasn't the kind of man to let personal feelings get in the way of the investigation. He knew what he was doing.