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Violence
Some
Moderate; crime fiction violence and the violence of war and its aftermath
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; PTSD context includes some substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; the psychological aftermath of trauma and the question of how violence changes a person
What this book is about
Minette Walters's psychological crime novel follows a veteran returning from Iraq with a traumatic injury and significant personality changes — and the investigation that gradually reveals what really happened to him. Walters writes crime fiction with genuine psychological depth and the literary ambition that earned her three Crime Writers' Gold Daggers.
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War trauma and PTSD themes
Psychological crime fiction
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