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Violence
StoryGraph readers flag gore, torture, blood and murder at the graphic level; one reviewer simply calls it a dark, gruesome read
Language
Very heavy
Sustained strong profanity
Sexual Content
Very heavy
Rape, sexual assault and sexual violence all appear as graphic-level reader warnings alongside explicit sexual content
Substance Use
A lot
Alcohol is a flagged warning and features heavily in the restaurant setting
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Confinement, stalking, grief and the death of a parent; the emotional core is a daughter's obsessive pursuit of who killed her mother
What this book is about
Matt Shank, a chef with an inherited restaurant, and Sam, a woman convinced her mother was one of the Beacon Hill Butcher's victims, circle each other in Hillier's Seattle serial-killer novel. Old secrets in one family and new bodies in the city move toward the same explanation.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Torture and gore
Rape and sexual violence
Serial murder investigation
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