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Violence
Some
Political violence in Morocco; Russell in danger while amnesiac; some violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific horror of a detective who cannot access her own history; what Russell knows intuitively when everything learned and deliberate has been taken away
What this book is about
Mary Russell wakes in a Moroccan alley with no memory of the past several days — not who she is, not who Holmes is, not how she came to be there. Holmes searches for her while Russell, unable to trust her own identity, navigates Morocco's complex political moment: France and Spain are dividing the country, and a Rif uprising is changing the region. Laurie R. King's twelfth Russell/Holmes novel uses Russell's amnesia to strip her back to instinct and observation — the detective's tools without their usual framework — and the Moroccan setting is rendered with care.
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twelfth Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes novel by Laurie R. King; Morocco setting
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