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Violence
Barely any
Investigation of a historic murder; some period violence described in testimony
Language
Some
Some strong language typical of the police procedural genre
Sexual Content
Barely any
References to past romantic relationships as they relate to the case
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild social drinking in police milieu
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of wrongful conviction and justice create sustained psychological weight
What this book is about
The seventeenth Dalziel and Pascoe mystery revisits a thirty-year-old murder case when a woman convicted of killing her employer is pardoned on new evidence. Dalziel, who was a junior officer on the original case, finds himself drawn into reexamining everything he believed about it. Hill's ambitious, structurally inventive novel jumps between past and present, interrogating institutional memory, the fallibility of testimony, and the nature of justice with his characteristic intelligence and compassion. One of the strongest entries in the series.
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Themes of wrongful conviction and institutional failure
Some mature language
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