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Violence
Some
Moderate; crime fiction violence including murder investigation
Language
Some
Some strong language in the hard-boiled tradition
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Some
Moderate; crime fiction world includes significant drinking
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild psychological complexity; investigating your own past
What this book is about
Michael Harvey's crime novel follows a Chicago journalist pulled into a cold-case investigation in his Boston childhood neighborhood, where the past — including his own — is entangled with the crime. Harvey's fiction is known for its muscular prose, urban atmosphere, and the moral complexity of protagonists who are never entirely clean.
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Crime fiction violence
Hard-boiled language
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