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Violence
Some
A murder; the victim's undocumented status affects what investigation is possible
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific invisibility of undocumented migrants to Italian institutions; conflict diamonds as a criminal trade that depends on the same invisibility
What this book is about
An illegal African street vendor is shot dead in one of Venice's most public squares — and despite the number of people present, nobody saw anything. Commissario Brunetti investigates a murder that connects to the illegal trade in conflict diamonds and to the networks that exploit undocumented migrants. Donna Leon's fourteenth Brunetti novel is the most directly about the exploitation of people who have no legal standing — whose deaths are barely investigated because their lives barely counted to the institutions around them.
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fourteenth Brunetti novel by Donna Leon
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