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Violence
A lot
Murder; gunrunning operation; Civil War battlefield scenes with moderate intensity
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Minimal substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate psychological tension; moral compromises of the arms trade; Civil War horror as backdrop
What this book is about
A dinner party in respectable London society ends in murder when a prominent gun dealer is killed. The investigation pulls William Monk and his wife Hester into a dangerous world of arms dealing that ultimately takes them across the Atlantic to the battlefields of the American Civil War. The eleventh William Monk novel is bold in scope, combining Victorian mystery with vivid American Civil War history.
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Murder
Civil War setting
Arms dealing
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