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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802148674
- ISBN: 0802148670
- Physical Description: 278 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
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General Note: | Maps on end papers. |
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Subject: | Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Police > Italy > Fiction. Water > Pollution > Fiction. Dying declarations > Fiction. Police. Italy > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Statesville Main Library | F LEON (Text) | 33114018225011 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F LEON (Text) | 39493108667223 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beaufort Main | F LEON (Text) | 34208203962161 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bordeaux Library | F LEON (Text) | 31781065504563 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Canton Library | F Leon (Text) | 33115007679141 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Columbus Library | F LEO (Text) | 31250200074569 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cumberland Headquarters | F LEON (Text) | 31781065504571 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dunn Public Library | F Leo / Lease (Text) | 33436001720124 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Eden Library | Fic (Text) | 31554010577277 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Enka-Candler Library | F LEO (Text) | 0020512561307 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |