listen I'm 12 pages into the book and the author introduced what I'm guessing is a side/throw-away character just to make it clear he ~likes 'em young~ (specifying that he's interested in girls 15 and younger) which is uh,, certainly a choice, and then has the main character sort of brush this off as nothing and kind of roll his eyes when his wife is like "we are NOT hanging out with that dude" and note that he's tried to convince the wife the pedo guy is Actually Fine before???

I'm a sucker for heists and well-researched historical fiction, especially late Victorian era, so I'm letting this slide since it doesn't seem plot relevant or like it's going to come up again, but it's VERY weird to include at all! where was his editor!! I honestly am not sure if it being plot relevant would make it better or worse!