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The Beach House

James Patterson, Peter de Jonge
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mystery crime thriller past tense first POV ~269 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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dark tense melancholic

A propulsive and dark mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence, romance, sexual content.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 80%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count67,188
Page count~269 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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