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Violence
Some
A brutal murder investigated procedurally; the backstory involves a transgender individual's life
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Some adult content related to the victim's identity and the world around them
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in a Venetian setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
A city that maintains its beauty by ignoring what doesn't fit it; Brunetti's care for victims regardless of how little their deaths seem to matter to others
What this book is about
A transvestite is found beaten to death on the edges of Venice, and the investigation reveals a world of secrets that the city keeps as firmly as any of its architectural ones — including a prominent Venetian family's connection to the victim that they have every reason to deny. Donna Leon's third Brunetti novel is her most focused on the specific way Venetian society organizes itself around not seeing what it doesn't want to see, and Brunetti's investigation is partly an act of bearing witness to a person the city would prefer to forget.
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third of the Brunetti series
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