About Face af Donna Leon (Bog)

Forfatter: Donna Leon
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 338
Forlag: Random House
Udgivelsesår: 2010
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?
Titel: About Face

Sammendrag: Krimi fra Venedig med Commissario Guido Brunetti i hovedrollen. En middag hos Brunettis svigerforældre fører til et møde med Franca Marinello, gift med en rig erhvervsmand og besat af klassiske forfattere. Samtidig undersøger en carabinieri-officer mafiaens mulige overtagelser af virksomheder og mordet på en vognmand, der driver ulovlig transport af affald og farlige stoffer. Da officeren myrdes kort efter at have delt sit spor med Brunetti, må Brunetti optrævle forbindelserne mellem miljøkriminalitet, økonomisk korruption, familieloyalitet og voldelig organiseret kriminalitet i og omkring Venedig.
Type: Paperback