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Violence
Very heavy
Graphic violence; sexual violence; Aberdeen's criminal underworld
Language
A lot
Strong language throughout
Sexual Content
A lot
Some sexual content; the investigation involves the sex work community
Substance Use
Some
Substance use in the community context
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific vulnerability of people whose assaults go less investigated than others'; Logan McRae's dark and exhausted relationship with his work
What this book is about
A series of brutal assaults in Aberdeen — specific, deliberate, and escalating — brings DS Logan McRae into an investigation that cuts across Aberdeen's sex work community and the violence that it is expected to absorb. Stuart MacBride's third Logan McRae novel is the darkest of the series' early run, dealing directly with violence against vulnerable people and the institutional tendency to take such violence less seriously than other kinds. Aberdeen's specific geography — the North Sea light, the granite city — is central to MacBride's atmosphere.
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third Logan McRae novel by Stuart MacBride; Aberdeen setting
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