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Violence
Some
Psychological investigation of blocked trauma; some violence in the recovered memories
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific way that childhood trauma can be sealed away and the cost of opening it; Holmes applying his methods to a problem that is entirely interior
What this book is about
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive in San Francisco — the city of Russell's childhood — and Russell begins having nightmares she cannot fully recall, connected to the earthquake and fire of 1906. Holmes investigates the nightmares as a mystery while Russell explores the city's past and her own family history. Laurie R. King's eighth Russell/Holmes novel is the most psychologically focused of the series — a locked room of memory that Russell cannot enter — and the San Francisco setting, with its history of seismic violence, gives the investigation a specific emotional geography.
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eighth Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes novel by Laurie R. King; set in San Francisco
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