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Violence
Some
Deaths in a nursing home under suspicious circumstances; the institutional response is coverup rather than inquiry
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Wine with meals
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific difficulty of questioning an institution that has convinced itself, and much of the city, that faith exempts it from accountability
What this book is about
A nursing home run by a Catholic order in Venice has been recording an unusually high death rate among its elderly residents. When a nun who worked there dies — officially of suicide — Brunetti investigates against resistance from both the Church and the city's authorities, who prefer not to ask uncomfortable questions about a religious institution. Donna Leon's seventh Brunetti novel is her most focused on the Church's role in Venetian civic life and the specific difficulty of investigating an institution that believes itself above secular law.
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seventh of the Brunetti series
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