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Bad Night Is Falling parent’s guide: what’s inside
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This is a hard-boiled detective noir aimed at adult readers, featuring a fatal firebombing that kills a family including children, gang violence, and morally complex themes. While the protagonist investigates injustice, the subject matter—murder, arson, conspiracy—and the traumatic death of innocent family members make this inappropriate for young readers. The novel explores systemic crime and corruption rather than glorifying violence.
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After a fatal firebombing, gangsters hire Ivan Monk to prove them innocent The Cruzado family wakes in the middle of the night, their lungs burning with smoke. Staggering out of bed, the father tries to rally his family to escape their house. When his daughter and mother don’t make it onto the lawn, he goes back in for... After a fatal firebombing, gangsters hire Ivan Monk to prove them innocent The Cruzado family wakes in the middle of the night, their lungs burning with smoke. Staggering out of bed, the father tries to rally his family to escape their house. When his daughter and mother don’t make it onto the lawn, he goes back in for them, never to return. This small housing development bungalow was supposed to be a new start for the Cruzados. Instead it became a tomb. The logical culprits are the Ra-Falcons, a street gang that holds sway over the Cruzados’ neighborhood. Only gangsters could be twisted enough, the police think, to toss a Molotov cocktail into a little girl’s bedroom. But when the gang’s leader hires private eye Ivan Monk to prove the Ra-Falcons’ innocence, Monk unearths a conspiracy far more sadistic than any violent gang.
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ISBN 9781453237601 · Open Road Media