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Informationen zum Autor Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist! celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland! Saudi Arabia! Iran and China! where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places ! which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction! Fatal Remedies! Doctored Evidence! A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things . Klappentext 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 Signora Marinello's 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 rivalry 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. Zusammenfassung He's charmed - perhaps too charmed! suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero! but shocked by her appearance. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. ...
