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Violence
A lot
Murder scenes, crime scene descriptions, and physical assault throughout
Language
Some
Police procedural language with strong profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
References to victim's lifestyle; minimal sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking; references to addiction
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Grief over husband's death, institutional corruption and failure, and the psychological weight of dark crimes
What this book is about
Detective Erika Foster, exiled to a London posting after a controversial operation cost her husband's life, investigates the murder of a socialite found frozen in a pond — uncovering secrets about a wealthy family that the powerful would rather keep buried permanently.
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Graphic crime scenes
Murder investigation
Institutional corruption
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