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Violence
Some
A murder and its investigation; the political complications around military jurisdiction
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; Italian meals with wine as constant atmosphere
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific humiliation of a jurisdiction that cannot fully investigate a crime on its own soil; Brunetti's patient, intelligent frustration
What this book is about
A young American soldier is found drowned in a Venetian canal, and Commissario Guido Brunetti's investigation runs immediately into the specific wall of American military and diplomatic status — a jurisdiction he cannot fully enter. The case connects to the waste dumping and corruption around a US military base. Donna Leon's second Brunetti novel is her most explicitly political, and her portrait of Venice as a city that has learned to accommodate corruption without liking it is beautifully observed.
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second of the Brunetti series
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