About Face

''The very first sentences of About Face showcase Donna Leon''s elegant, effortless style ... another great Brunetti outing.''The Independent

Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller
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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 c