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Violence
A lot
A content-rating service catalogues a blow to the head from behind, an elderly character's fall with blood, a hospital seizure, and a newspaper account of a bludgeoning death
Language
A lot
The same rating service counts roughly six f-word derivatives, twenty-nine mild obscenities, four scatological terms and twenty religious exclamations
Sexual Content
Some
Flagged as explicit by one rating service but limited in scope; the marriage's intimacy is secondary to the mystery
Substance Use
Some
Social drinking and grief drinking in a small-town setting
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
A spouse's sustained deception, buried family violence, dementia in an older relative, and the slow-burn dread of realising you married a stranger
What this book is about
Jack Quinlan told Sarah his mother died in a fall. In Penny Gate, Iowa, for his aunt's death, Sarah learns the death was a homicide and the case was never solved. Her marriage becomes the mystery, and the town has been keeping its version for thirty years.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Family homicide and cover-up
Spousal deception
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