Donna Leon’s critically acclaimed, internationally
bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted
readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the
humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in
exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian
culture. In the pages of Leon’s novels, the beloved
conversations of the Brunetti family have drawn on topics of
art and literature, but books are at the heart of this novel
in a way they never have been before.
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.
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