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Lessons for Sleeping Dogs<\/a><\/em> (2015) Charlie Cochrane<\/a> (Cambridge Fellows)<\/p>\n

\"Lessons<\/a>Set in England in 1921<\/p>\n

Jonty and Orlando are asked to look into what seems to have been a double suicide–a man who suffered debilitating paralysis and the doctor who treated him.<\/p>\n

The case touches on two things neither much wants to discuss: the war, and their relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said that your brother was nice enough, on the surface. What lay beneath?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAn unhealthy interest in men. Especially in young men.\u201d Charles made a face, a clear expression of disgust. <\/p>\n

So the conversation had arrived there; the place he and Jonty always wanted to avoid. Orlando took a deep breath before firing off his next question. \u201cAn unhealthy interest in young men? A romantic interest?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPrecisely that. If grown men want to indulge in that vile stuff in the privacy of their own homes, that\u2019s up to them, but when it involves those of a younger age, it\u2019s nothing more than coercion as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI was told he came home from France with neurasthenia.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to use that term, Orlando.\u201d <\/p>\n

Orlando winced. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe both know you mean shell shock. He returned home with it four years ago. He got better, but he was never the same as he\u2019d been back in 1914, even though he\u2019d not taken part in the fighting. He saw enough carnage in the field hospitals to upset the strongest stomach, doctor or not. That\u2019s why he hated to see any suffering. He\u2019d seen too much of it, knew too well what some of his patients went through.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This story was a bit all over the place, and pulled in all kinds of elements, and it mostly left me confused.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Lume Books <\/p>\n

Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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