Book guide
The City & The City
A murder forces a detective to confront the city his neighbours are trained not to see.
Genre and trope pairingsCrimeDetective proceduralCrimeNoir detectiveCrimeWhodunnitMysteryWhodunnitMysteryDetective procedural
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About The City & The City
Inspector Tyador Borlú investigates the murder of a woman in the decaying city of Besźel. As the evidence points to conspiracies beyond a routine case, he is forced toward Besźel’s strange twin city, a metropolis separated by a border like no other.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- murder
- gun violence
- death
- police brutality
- violence
- xenophobia
- cursing
- deportation
- graphic mutilation
- racism
- terrorism
