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Violence
Some
Moderate; crime fiction violence and investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; the corruption-adjacent world of the investigation
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the moral complexity of following justice into dangerous territory
What this book is about
Sara Paretsky's twenty-first V.I. Warshawski novel follows the Chicago private investigator into a case that touches on real estate, political corruption, and the long shadow of the past. Paretsky has been writing V.I. for four decades with unflagging intelligence about the systems that fail ordinary people.
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