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Violence
Some
Forensic crime content; mass grave exhumations and investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of historical atrocity, forensic justice, and what is owed to the disappeared
What this book is about
The fifth Temperance Brennan novel finds the forensic anthropologist in Guatemala working on exhumations of mass graves from the civil war — while a separate investigation into a missing girl from a wealthy Montreal family pulls her in another direction. Reichs's most explicitly political novel, Grave Secrets confronts the scale of Latin American atrocities through Brennan's forensic work.
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Mass grave content (Guatemalan civil war)
Forensic crime content
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