Via Dolorosa by Kirill Khrestinin | Motivated Savages

Via Dolorosa

by Kirill Khrestinin

A literary crime novel about suffering, darkness, survival, and stubborn hope.

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Some roads only open at the bottom.

Laura Jones left her grandfather’s ranch for Los Angeles, chasing a bigger life. The city fed her to its wolves — the man who sold her, the man in uniform who came through her door — and what was left of her ended up at the edge of the desert, where the only living thing is one ugly, stubborn tree that has no business being alive.

Around her ruin, other lives are breaking. Harry Dolan is a cop who can smell evil in every stranger but not in the partner beside him — and he is losing his daughter, his marriage, and his soul in slow motion. John Eagle wears the uniform of protection over the appetite of a predator. And Degory Jones, Laura’s grandfather — an old soldier carrying a fifty-year-old sin and a Purple Heart he calls his punishment — is about to commit one more killing. The kind a man doesn’t survive, even when he lives.

Via Dolorosa is a novel about what suffering does to people who have nothing to carry it with — the ones it breaks, the ones it turns into monsters, and the one woman who finds, at the end of the road of sorrows, something she had stopped believing in.

Unsparing, violent, and shot through with a strange, stubborn light, Via Dolorosa is a literary crime novel for readers drawn to the moral reckoning of Crime and Punishment and the generational wounds of East of Eden—a story about the darkness people make of this world, and the dawn that outlasts it.

Book Details:

• Genre: Thriller & Suspense
• Format: Paperback, eBook