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Violence
Some
A murder; the investigation involves industrial corruption and environmental crime
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific complicity of regulators with the industries they're supposed to regulate; Murano as a world unto itself with its own relationship to Venice's institutions
What this book is about
An inspector from the environmental agency is killed on Murano — the island near Venice famous for its centuries-old glassblowing tradition. The investigation takes Commissario Brunetti into the Murano glass industry: its families, its secrets, the environmental damage that the industry causes and the official silence that enables it. Donna Leon's fifteenth Brunetti novel uses the glassmakers' world to examine the relationship between tradition, economic power, and environmental harm — and the specific corruption of regulators who know what they're looking at and choose not to see it.
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fifteenth Brunetti novel by Donna Leon; Murano glass industry setting
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