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Violence
A lot
Graphic violence including a dismembered body and murders across both timelines
Language
Some
Adult language in Tudor's thriller register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Drinking and some drug use across the decades
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of childhood secrets kept for decades — and the returning threat — creates the novel's sustained and effective dread
What this book is about
C.J. Tudor's debut psychological thriller alternates between 1986 and 2016, following Eddie Adams and his childhood friends whose innocent game of chalk figures led to discovering a body — and whose adult lives are now being threatened by someone who knows what really happened. Tudor builds sustained dread with effective plotting and dark historical revelations. Significant violence and psychological horror throughout. For adult readers of psychological thrillers.
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