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Violence
Some
Murder; crime scene details with moderate intensity
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Drug addiction is a central plot element; a new pharmaceutical drug drives the narrative
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong psychological intensity; addiction and its destruction; Victorian medical ethics; the killer's hidden identity
What this book is about
A woman's brutally murdered body is found on the bank of the Thames. When William Monk investigates, he discovers she was in the grip of a powerful new drug — and that the drug's dark network extends through London's most respectable drawing rooms and medical institutions. The eighteenth William Monk novel is a rich Victorian thriller about addiction, complicity, and the dangerous intersection of medicine and crime.
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Drug addiction themes
Murder
Victorian medical corruption
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