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Violence
A lot
Murders and crime scene investigations; the violence of an opioid epidemic depicted throughout
Language
Some
Moderate language in police and street contexts
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationships; nothing explicit
Substance Use
A lot
Opioid addiction is the novel's central subject — heroin and fentanyl use described in detail
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Family estrangement over addiction, survivor guilt, the impossible distance between sisters
What this book is about
Philadelphia police officer Mickey Fitzpatrick patrols the Kensington neighborhood — the epicenter of the city's opioid crisis — and her estranged sister Kacey lives there, somewhere in the grip of addiction. When a string of murders begins and Kacey goes missing, Mickey investigates from the inside. Liz Moore's literary crime novel is a portrait of two sisters, a city in crisis, and the brutal gulf between those swept away by addiction and those left watching.
Notes for sensitive readers
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opioid epidemic as central subject
murder investigation in affected community
family fractured by addiction
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