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Violence
Very heavy
Content warnings include murder, physical abuse, and animal death with alluded torture; reviewers note the animal material is among the hardest to read
Language
A lot
Strong adult language in the police and teenage timelines
Sexual Content
A lot
Warnings cover sexual assault and statutory rape, plus grooming of a teenage girl by an older figure
Substance Use
Some
Teen drinking in the 1995 timeline
Emotional Intensity
Physically and emotionally abusive relationships, absent parenting, bullying, gaslighting, infertility and pregnancy loss, suicidal thoughts, hoarding and dementia; reviewers describe a book unafraid to go dark on nearly every front
What this book is about
Eve Knox was found dead in the caves outside Grotto, Iowa, in 1995. Maggie Kennedy-Price, now a pregnant detective, gets the cold case, and the novel rotates between Maggie, Eve, and Eve's sister Nola — a woman whose relationship with animals told everyone in town something they chose not to hear.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Animal cruelty and alluded torture
Statutory rape and grooming
Pregnancy loss
Suicidal ideation
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