Miracle, Mystery and Authority

In 1887, in Moscow, on the eve of Christmas, a young detective Ivan K. remembers an old crime in which his friend’s nephew was harmed. The guilty party was quickly found and punished, but new details make the investigator doubt the correctness of the verdict. Ivan feels guilty for destroying the life of a man who may have been innocent. To uncover the truth, he must go through trials similar to those in Charles Dickens’s novels. A new book by Ekaterina Zvontsova, inspired by the works of Dostoevsky and Dickens, makes the reader think about the price of a single child’s tear.