Title: By its cover
Description: One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.
Subjects: Murder, Police, Investigation, Fiction, Art, Romans, nouvelles, Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character), nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-04-20, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Brunetti, guido (fictitious character), fiction, Venice (italy), fiction, Fiction, crime, Libraries, Large type books
Places: Venice (Italy), Venice, Italy
People: Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character)