EAN: 9781785152443

TRACE ELEMENTS - DONNA LEON KARTONIERT (TB)

A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to
the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato
calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to
speak to the police  Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague  Claudia Griffoni  waste no
time in responding. 'They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no'  Benedetta Toso gasps
the words about her recently-deceased husband  Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she
can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to
be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples
of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that
he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's
obsession with youth crime in Venice  Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable
research skills of Patta's secretary  Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled
threads  in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and
the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be
ambiguous  as Brunetti is reminded it can be when  seeking solace  he reads Aeschylus's classic
play The Eumenides. As she has done so often through her memorable characters and storytelling
skill  Donna Leon once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences between guilt and
responsibility.

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