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In the 27th novel in Donna Leon's best-selling unknown series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with troubling unintended outcomes Shocked, if not dismayed, to find from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is amazed more consequentially by the looks of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and hopeful Brunetti can somehow intervene. When Tullio Gasparini, the girl husband, is found unconscious and with a serious brain damage at the feet of any Venice bridge at nighttime, Brunetti is attracted to pursue a possible connection to the boy's behavior. But the fact, as Brunetti has experienced so often, is rarely uncomplicated. An study of Gasparini's home office reveals a number of weird coupons in his older aunt's name from a local drugstore, which over time reveal a long-running scam. As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's superb chronicle of Venetian life in every its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gatekeeper, and reminded of the ever-lasting virtues of his own family. His intellectual pursuits lead him to study Sophocles' play Antigone, so revealing of the unintended outcomes that can erupt from bad decisions - and tempt him to consider at least personal forgiveness for a offense from the center gone bad.
