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19. Maledictus

Detectives Goren and Eames are investigating the case of a beheaded woman whose body has disappeared. They discover that the victim is the American-raised daughter of a Russian mafioso. At first, they suspect that she was murdered after announcing plans to write a revealing book about growing up in a criminal family, and thugs planned a gangland hit to kill her, but evidently someone beat them to it.

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The severed head of author Ilana Yushka ( Alla Kliouka Schaffer ) is sent to her publisher. Detectives Goren and Eames initially suspect her jailed Russian mob boss father had ordered the killing after she announced plans to write a second book about the family business, however someone else killed her before the Russians. Further investigations lead to one of her previous private school classmates, a self-tortured and cross-dressing real estate magnate Kenneth Strick ( David Thornton ). Research into the apparent suicidal death by poisoning of Strick's pregnant mother when Kenneth was a schoolboy lead Goren and Eames to the realization that he feared he would be exposed in the proposed book for murdering his mother because he had told Ilana he was responsible.

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