It never hurts to immerse yourself in a new history of the American Donna leon and its indefatigable curator Guido Brunetti, someone in whom the writer turns her passion for the Italy of her youth.
And I say that it never hurts because that way we can recover the old shine of a city like Venice that is not going through its best moments. The truth is that between floods, which do not bode well for the survival of the city, and health crises focused on northern Italy although widespread throughout the world, Venice seems more melancholic than ever.
But hey, perhaps for this reason, in these strange days it does not hurt to indulge in reading with greater intensity. And in that aspect of plots that manage to transport us to intense scenes of the purest detective novel ...
«From the residence where she spends her last days bedridden, Benedetta Toso, ill with cancer at the age of just thirty-eight, wants to talk to Brunetti about something she does not want to take with her to the grave.
Weak and on the verge of death, the woman barely manages to have a moment of lucidity and sketch some individual phrases that involve her husband, Vittorio Fadalto, who recently died in a traffic accident, with money obtained illegally and who, in Consequently, his death was actually murder. "They killed him," he tells the commissioner. Unfortunately, before more information can be obtained, the woman exhales her last breath.
What illegal money was he referring to? Who are these "they" whom Toso accuses of having murdered her husband? The fine thread of investigation will lead the curator to the man's workplace, Spattuto Acqua, a private company in charge of monitoring the quality of water in Venice.
There, Brunetti will not only face the truth about whether Fadalto was assassinated or not, but also a case of bribery between employees with the aim of hiding polluting spills in the water, which could have catastrophic consequences on the health of Venetians. ».
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