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Violence
Some
Murder of Eve's abuser; backstory of childhood physical and sexual abuse
Language
Some
Moderate language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content; the abuse backstory is frank
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Very strong; a survivor confronting her abuser and then having to solve her murder; the psychology of what it means to want someone dead and then be forced to find who actually killed them; Roarke's own damaged history as parallel
What this book is about
The twenty-second In Death novel: Eve Dallas's former foster mother, who abused her as a child, appears in Eve's life. Before Eve can process what to do, the woman is murdered. Eve must investigate the killing of someone she hated, and the case forces her to excavate the childhood she has spent her career refusing to look at. Roberts writes this one with unusual emotional depth.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Childhood physical and sexual abuse as backstory — explicit by Roberts's standard
Murder investigation of an abuser
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