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Violence
Very heavy
Women killed in staged suicides described with forensic detail; online harassment as the precipitating mechanism
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The way online harassment normalizes the desire for certain women's deaths to the point where murder can hide inside it
What this book is about
Women who have been targeted by online harassment campaigns for speaking their minds — on feminism, on politics, on anything that makes them targets — are dying in apparent suicides. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, newly reunited as a team in a different institutional configuration, investigate a killer who has found a way to make murder look like the outcome of online hate rather than a specific crime. Val McDermid's ninth Wire in the Blood novel is her most directly topical — online misogyny and harassment as a vehicle for murder — and one of her most politically engaged.
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ninth of the Wire in the Blood series
online harassment and misogyny as central themes
graphic violence
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