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Violence
A lot
Murder and investigation in the Louisiana criminal world; some graphic violence
Language
A lot
Very strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild sexual content; the victim is a teenager
Substance Use
A lot
Heavy drinking throughout
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific injustice of a criminal justice system that protects some people by default; Dave's particular refusal to accept the clean answer
What this book is about
A teenage girl is found murdered in New Iberia, and the investigation points toward a local ex-convict — the kind of case that should close quickly. But Dave Robicheaux keeps finding edges that don't fit, and the more he pulls, the more the case connects to the specific corruption of a Louisiana town that has been organized around protecting certain people for generations. James Lee Burke's twelfth Robicheaux novel is one of his most focused on the specific mechanisms of Southern criminal justice — who gets investigated and who gets protected, and why.
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very strong language
victim is a teenager
twelfth of the Robicheaux series
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