Publisher's Synopsis
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandelism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, but the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other that Paola Brunetti, his wife. As Paola's actions provok a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious accidental death and his superiors need quick results. But now Brunetti's own career is under threat as his professional and personal lives clash - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink. . .
