Death in a Strange Country: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

“This series has become one of the adornments of current crime fiction. A gem.” -The Scotsman

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convince...