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By: Donna Leon
Series: Guido Brunetti -- 18; Commissario Guido Brunetti novel
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780434019441; 9780434019434
Subjects: Fiction; Italian Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery stories; Mafia
Description: "At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario 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. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggiore Filipo Guarino from the nearby district of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company found murdered in his offices. He believes his death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in the company trucks."

"No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's paranoid behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past? Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life."--Publisher description.
Notes: "The new Commissario Guido Brunetti novel"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: "The new Commissario Guido Brunetti novel"; title: Cover.