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Challenge Book# 76

TITLE: [Through a Glass Darkly]  ★★★
AUTHOR: Donna Leon
GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: Pollution, birth defects
Setting: Venice, Italy
CHARACTERS: Commissario Guido Brunetti, Signorina Elettra, Signor De Cal, Tassini
DATE READ: August 30 - September 6
NO. OF PAGES: 397
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   yes, Audio Stockpile

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Commissario Brunetti continues to evolve as a crusader investigating where crimes may occurring before an official crime is reported.

This time on the island of Murano at the glass factories, has there been polluting gone unreported which may have caused a chi8ld to be born with severe defects?  When the father who has been making such claims is found dead near one of the glass furnaces, Brunetti sets out to undercover the truth.

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