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Violence
Some
Murder investigation; nothing graphic
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the poison of a wealthy closed community and what resentments fester within it; Hawthorne's reading of each resident as both detective and character study
What this book is about
The fifth Hawthorne and Horowitz mystery: a murder in a wealthy gated community in Richmond, London. A neighbor everyone disliked is killed after threatening multiple residents. Every resident had motive. Horowitz's characteristic puzzle-plot construction gives each suspect full development before the solution.
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