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Violence
Some
A cold-case murder investigation anchors the plot, handled with the series' typical restraint
Language
Barely any
Minimal strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
A potentially inappropriate historical relationship between a professor and a student is referenced as part of the case
Substance Use
Barely any
Not a significant element
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes include lingering illness (Covid recovery), old academic rivalries, and the emotional weight of closing out a long-running series' relationships
What this book is about
When builders find a modern skeleton behind a café wall in King's Lynn, archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson identify it as a student who vanished in the 1990s — and suspicion falls on their friend Cathbad, still frail from a near-fatal bout of Covid. This is the fifteenth and final novel in the long-running Ruth Galloway series.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Professor-student relationship referenced as part of the investigation
Cold-case murder of a young woman
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