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Violence
A lot
Serial murders; crime scene evidence; confrontations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate alcohol in Miami setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
Serial killer with poetic fixation on past victims
What this book is about
The 18th Pendergast novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (2018) in which Pendergast is assigned to work with a partner — Special Agent Coldmoon — for the first time. They investigate a series of Miami murders where the killer leaves handwritten poems on the graves of past victims. A new series dynamic with Pendergast navigating the partnership while solving a serial murder case.
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Serial murder
Grave desecration
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