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"a gothic, dark mystery novel. i think there’s a murder. the murderer is a wealthy powerful man, and investigators find barrels of human waste and decomposing bodies in barrels on his property. the FMC at some point goes onto the antagonist’s boat for a meal, but i can’t remember why it would have been released before the mid-2000s, because i was reading it…"

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