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Violence
Some
Cold case murder; bones discovered; moderate thriller investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Minimal substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological intensity; past crime's impact on present; victim identification process
What this book is about
When bones are discovered beneath the floor of a Seattle-area school during renovation, Detective J.P. Beaumont is assigned to identify the victim and uncover the truth of a crime that happened long ago. The seventeenth J.P. Beaumont novel weaves together a cold case with present-day murder in Jance's characteristic style of Pacific Northwest procedural fiction.
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Cold case
Historical murder
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