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Violence
Barely any
Murder investigation; no graphic depiction
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the intellectual puzzle of a crime designed to be perfect
What this book is about
A Jeffery Deaver short story featuring Lincoln Rhyme: someone has committed what appears to be a perfect murder, leaving no physical evidence and an airtight alibi. Rhyme's method — the total observation of physical evidence — is tested against a crime specifically designed to defeat it. Deaver's compressed short fiction shows his puzzle-plot method at its most concentrated.
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