Comissario Guido and Paola Brunetti attend a dinner party at Palazzo Falier at which Maurizio Cataldo and his wife are guests. Later that week at the Questura, Brunetti is asked for two favors. The...

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera - a body so badly beaten the face is...