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Violence
Some
Murders connected to drug trafficking; organized crime violence in the background
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Wine with meals as Venetian social texture
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific way that corruption becomes indistinguishable from professional life when it is old enough; Brunetti's frustrated intelligence
What this book is about
A series of deaths connected to a high-powered law firm draws Commissario Brunetti into the specifically Venetian world of legal corruption — the way the city's powerful families use their lawyers not just to serve the law but to shape it. Donna Leon's fifth Brunetti novel is her most focused on organized crime and its relationship to professional respectability. The Venetian atmosphere — the boats, the palaces, the specific quality of light on stone — is as immersive as ever.
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fifth of the Brunetti series
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