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Violence
Some
A suspicious death (poisoning) and its investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Some adult content in the relationships examined
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific damage done to women who define themselves entirely by proximity to other people's success; the question of where justified anger ends and crime begins
What this book is about
Caroline Goldacre, personal assistant to a prominent feminist author named Clare Abbott, contacts police after Clare dies suddenly at a book event. Was it natural causes? Lynley and Havers investigate the women in Clare's orbit — her assistant, her literary agent, her ex-husband's new family — and find a tangle of resentment, exploitation, and a very particular kind of damage that flows from living in someone else's shadow. Elizabeth George's nineteenth Lynley novel is one of her most feminist works: a sustained examination of how women's anger is pathologized while the conditions that produce it are overlooked.
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nineteenth of the Lynley series
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