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Violence
A lot
Murder investigation and some crime violence; a personal case with high emotional stakes
Language
Some
Moderate language in an LA crime register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A man's identity shaped by a parent's abandonment, what it means to investigate your own history, the question of what we owe someone who might be family
What this book is about
The tenth Elvis Cole novel. A man is found shot in an alley in Los Angeles, and with his last words he claims to be Elvis Cole's father — the absent parent who has defined Elvis's identity through his absence. Elvis has to investigate the murder while confronting the question of whether the dead man was who he claimed to be, and what it would mean if he was.
Notes for sensitive readers
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murder investigation
emotional exploration of absent-parent identity
best read with Elvis Cole series context
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