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Violence
A lot
A faked death; the original crime that was supposedly a murder; some violence
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Some
Heavy drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific harm done to a family that built its grief around a lie; the ethics of a person who chose to let someone else be convicted of his nonexistent murder
What this book is about
A woman whose husband was supposedly murdered comes to Thorne with new evidence: she believes the man convicted of her husband's murder was innocent, because she's seen someone she's certain is her husband — alive, in Spain. Thorne investigates and discovers a man who faked his own death to escape a life he found intolerable. Mark Billingham's ninth Thorne novel is his most concerned with the aftermath of crime — the specific damage done to people whose lives were organized around a murder that may not have occurred — and with the ethics of a man who chose to let others take the consequences of his disappearance.
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ninth of the Tom Thorne series
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