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Violence
Very heavy
Extreme graphic violence from the first chapter; mass shooting, murders, and torture depicted with Slaughter's characteristic unflinching realism
Language
Some
Adult language in the crime thriller register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some substance use in the backstory
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of discovering your mother is a stranger — and that the violence shaping her past is still active — is the novel's sustained thriller engine
What this book is about
Karin Slaughter's thriller opens with a shocking mass shooting in a small-town diner — and Andrea's mild, gentle mother Laura saves lives with terrifying competence. As the investigation unfolds, Andrea discovers that her mother has a completely hidden identity connected to a violent political past in the 1980s. Slaughter writes graphic crime fiction; the opening shooting and subsequent violence throughout are extremely graphic and realistic. For adult readers of Slaughter's crime fiction only.
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Extreme graphic violence from the first chapter
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