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Violence
A lot
A missing child investigation; the violence is discovered through reconstruction rather than witnessed directly
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content; the missing child plot involves implied danger
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific horror of amnesia as a mystery structure — a detective investigating a crime he committed and cannot remember; the urgency of a child still possibly alive
What this book is about
A man is pulled from the Thames, badly beaten and with no memory of who he is or how he got there. In his pocket is a photograph of a missing girl. Detective Vincent Ruiz, the man pulled from the river, must reconstruct his own investigation of the girl's disappearance while unable to remember it. Michael Robotham's second O'Loughlin novel is the most formally unusual of the series — structured around Ruiz's fragmented memory reconstruction — and one of the most tightly plotted. Joe O'Loughlin supports the investigation from outside.
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second of the O'Loughlin series; Ruiz-focused
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