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Violence
Some
A child's disappearance and historical violence on the moor; some thriller elements
Language
Barely any
Mild language in an Edwardian register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in an English setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of Holmes's past on a partnership that is still new; the moor as a place that seems to contain its own ancient evil
What this book is about
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes travel to Dartmoor in winter, where a series of frightening events on the moor — including the disappearance of a child — suggest that something very old and very dangerous has returned to the landscape that once gave Holmes his most famous case. Laurie R. King's fourth Mary Russell novel is her most atmospheric — the moor in winter is rendered in loving, frightening detail — and the one that most directly confronts the shadow of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which Russell knows from Watson's account but Holmes experienced from the inside.
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fourth of the Mary Russell series
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