Description
As the first leaves of autumn drift through Venice, Vice Questore Patta draws Commissario Brunetti into what seems like a minor shop-keeping matter—only for the case to deepen into something far more troubling. When a deaf-mute man is found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills, Brunetti initially suspects accident, but the details refuse to settle into a simple explanation. Moving through Venice’s streets and canals, he interviews those on the margins of society, where language, silence, and misunderstanding can hide as much as they reveal. With Donna Leon’s sharp, humane storytelling and Brunetti’s steady moral inquiry, the novel explores grief, vulnerability, and the quiet mechanisms of justice in a city that never stops watching.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2014
352 pages
ISBN: 9780099584971
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
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