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Violence
Some
Murder investigation; moderate hardboiled thriller violence
Language
Some
Moderate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Minimal substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong psychological intensity; Holocaust survivor trauma; religious extremism; corporate fraud
What this book is about
V.I. Warshawski becomes entangled in a case involving Holocaust survivors fighting for insurance settlements owed to their murdered families, and a dangerous fundamentalist preacher whose followers will stop at nothing. The tenth V.I. Warshawski novel is one of Paretsky's most emotionally ambitious, connecting historical trauma to present-day extremism.
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Holocaust themes
Religious extremism
Insurance fraud
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