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En av studentene til Commissario Brunettis kone blir myrdet og Brunetti begynner å etterforske saken. I sitt arbeide avdekker han godt bevarte hemmeligheter om konspirasjon og utnytting av italienske jøder under krigen, hemmeligheter få mennesker i Italia er glade for å få kjenn…
When one of his wife's students is murdered, Commissario Brunetti's investigation opens up long-buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.
Donna Leon's novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.
Donna Leon's novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.
Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditio…