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Violence
Some
Two murders — the contemporary investigation and the historical one within the nested novel
Language
Barely any
Mild language; British mystery register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; adult relationships
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Moderate; the mystery of what a novelist hides in a book; the unreliable narrator question; the pleasure of fair-play mystery at its most technically ambitious
What this book is about
The second Hawthorne novel follows Susan Ryeland, former editor at a mystery publisher, who is asked to read a novel she worked on years ago because the family of a man murdered at a hotel has realized the book contains clues about who really did it. Horowitz constructs a 'book within a book' with a complete Atticus Pünd mystery nested inside Ryeland's present-day investigation. It's a feat of puzzle-box mystery construction.
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