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Violence
Some
Murder investigation content; crime scenes and procedural violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of forgotten victims and the persistence of justice
What this book is about
The seventeenth Kinsey Millhone novel features a case based on a real unsolved murder: a Jane Doe found in a California quarry in 1969, never identified. Grafton's use of a real case gives Q is for Quarry an unusual weight — the novel ends with information about the actual victim, making the fictional investigation a genuine tribute. Among the most affecting entries in the alphabet series.
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Murder investigation
Based on a real unsolved case
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