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Mystery · 2015 · PG-13

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by Sue Grafton

A psychopath who kills without leaving a trace meets his match in Santa Teresa's most tenacious investigator

“An inventive plot and incisive character studies elevate MWA Grand Master Grafton’s twenty-fourth Kinsey Millhone novel...This superior outing will remind readers why this much-loved series will be missed as the end of the alphabet approaches.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss... Perhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath.

For14+GenreMysteryLength483 pagesRead time~13 hours

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Violence

A lot

Serial killer violence and murder scenes

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

Minimal sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

Brief substance references

Emotional Intensity

Some

Psychological menace from a calculating serial killer

What this book is about

Kinsey Millhone pursues two parallel investigations — a missing man's hidden financial life and a serial killer who murders without leaving evidence. In her most ambitious and darkest case, Kinsey closes in on a psychopath whose methodical violence has gone undetected for years.

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Serial killer violence and multiple murders

Psychological menace

Dark subject matter

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