Overdose – Trigger Warning Database

After Care by L.B. Dunbar

Breast cancer survivor Edie Williams is ready to live. Divorced. Mother of two. She’s planned the vacation of a lifetime for a reboot, only to encounter an awakening adventure—Tommy Carrigan. Manager of the band Collision, Tommy Carrigan has his plate full. Independent. Carefree. He’s on an annual holiday with his band family, when the unexpected happens—Edie Williams. Love might be just what the doctor prescribed, but can it survive the world of rock-n-roll?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Spousal infidelity recounted
Adult-minor relationship mentioned
Alcohol consumption (on-page)
Spouse with alcoholism recounted
Protagonist in remission for breast cancer
Death of a relative from suicide by overdose mentioned

*Context: : Mentions of a adult-minor relationship involving an eighteen-year-old high school student and a 22-year-old man.

Adrift by Will Dean

Peggy and Drew, both aspiring writers, move to an isolated canal boat with their fourteen-year-old son. Peggy is the glue that holds their family together, even as their son is bullied relentlessly for his physique and his family’s lack of money. But when Drew becomes frustrated by his wife’s sudden writing success, he moves their boat further and further from civilization. With their increasing isolation, personal challenges become harder to ignore, even as they desperately try to break toxic generational patterns. But when Drew’s gaslighting becomes too much for Peggy to take, it sets off a catastrophic series of events.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse
Domestic abuse & gaslighting
Suicide mentioned
Forced institutionalisation
Drug overdose
Death of a parent mentioned
Animal death

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

Labor and delivery nurse Penelope is an expert at her job but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. After her boyfriend dumps her in favor of saving his marriage, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant. Now Penelope must face motherhood, her greatest fear, or consider the alternatives. Jesenia, a first-generation American, made her mark as a model then quit the business in favor of a nine-to-five and wedded bliss. After three years of fertility treatments and pressure from her family, trying to become a mother is her full-time job. But when her past mistakes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abandonment
Schizophrenia
Self-harm & suicidal ideation
Drug use & overdose
School shooting mentioned

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a sister from suicide by overdose

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Period-typical sexism
Period-typical racism & racial slurs including antisemitism, antiziganism (g slur) and mentions of blackface
Drugging
Alcohol consumption
Seizures (on-page)
Death of a mother from accidental overdose mentioned
Murder of a mother/mother-in-law and wife by poisoning (which was first diagnosed as death from heart failure)
Incarceration pending trial
Military service mentioned
Mentions of euthanising a dog

Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no one remembers seeing him disembark. And then Oliver’s body washes up on the Thames with two bullet holes in him – it’s time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship
Parent with substance addiction
Alcohol consumption & drug use including overdose
Cancer
Murder
Gun violence
Animal death

HappyHead by Josh Silver

We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness. Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer. When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & outing mentioned
Alcohol consumption & drug use mentioned
Overdose mentioned
Emesis
Animal death

The New Neighbours by Claire Douglas

When Lena helps her teenage son gather sounds for his media studies project, she doesn’t expect her boom-microphone to pick up a conversation between her neighbours, the Morgans. And she’s certain they are planning a crime. Her family and friends tell her that she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are a well-respected, upstanding couple in their early sixties. They’ve never been in trouble with the law. Yet Lena can’t stop thinking about it. Because what if she hasn’t misheard? What if she can prevent something awful happening? After all, stopping it could help ease her conscience about her own dark past…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Divorce mentioned
Drug use & mentions of an overdose
Infertility
Knife violence
Kidnapping & captivity
Blackmail

Feel My Pain by K.A. Merikan

wo years ago, the Rabid Hyenas MC ripped Zane apart like a pack of starving wolves. But he’s not only a survivor, he took revenge that same night. Turns out, one of the bikers is still alive, and as long as that’s the case, Zane will not know peace. Especially since Roach is the dirtbag who caused all the mayhem in the first place. When an act of revenge meant to close that chapter of Zane’s life takes a shocking turn, all hell breaks loose. Roach’s pain is his. When Roach bleeds, he does. When Zane suffers, Roach screams. So until Zane can figure out how to lift the curse and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Forced outing
Rape, statutory rape & sexual assault
Sex work mentioned
Attempted suicide & self-harm
Overdose
Arson
Torture mentioned

Mind Games by Nancy Mehl

Kaely Quinn’s talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she’s demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. When the same reporter who ruined her career claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely’s, the reporter’s ulterior motives bring his claim into question. But when a body is found that fits the poem’s predictions, the threat is undeniable, and the FBI sends Special Agent Noah Hunter to St. Louis. Initially resentful of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental infidelity mentioned
Suicide by overdose
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & nightmares (protagonist)
Murder & attempted murder