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Violence
Some
Multiple deaths of immigrants; the investigation involves criminal networks exploiting refugees
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific horror of a criminal economy that profits from human desperation; Montalbano's fury at institutions that treat the dead as someone else's problem
What this book is about
Bodies keep washing ashore near Vigàta — drowned immigrants, casualties of the illegal trade that moves people across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Sicily. Inspector Montalbano investigates the bodies and the networks behind the drownings. Andrea Camilleri's seventh Montalbano novel is the most directly political in its early run, engaging with immigration across the Mediterranean and the specific criminality that exploits desperate people attempting the crossing. Camilleri's characteristically warm world is here used to examine something cold and systematic.
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seventh Inspector Montalbano novel by Andrea Camilleri; Mediterranean immigration
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