by Donna Leon (Author)
When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 28 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0434009946
ISBN 13: 9780434009947
Book Overview: Donna Leon has lived and taught English literature in several countries. Other titles she has produced include A Venetian Reckoning , The Death of Faith and A Sea of Troubles .