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Violence
Some
A death that drove the original grief; some wartime violence in the backstory
Language
Barely any
Mild language in a period register
Sexual Content
None
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in an English country house setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
The long aftermath of war grief; what a family does when a generation is simply gone; Holmes and Russell's partnership growing into something more equal
What this book is about
Holmes and Russell return to England to find themselves involved with an old aristocratic family — the Hughenforts of Justice Hall — whose seemingly straightforward succession problem conceals a grief rooted in the Great War and its particular devastation of an entire generation of young men. Laurie R. King's sixth Mary Russell novel is her most focused on the aftermath of WWI and the specific way that loss shaped English aristocratic society through the 1920s. The country house setting is rendered with both affection and clear eyes about what it contained.
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sixth of the Mary Russell series
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