Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti and his wife, Paola, are on their way to a dinner party when Brunetti\'s eye is caught by a couple ahead of them: a woman in an impossibly expensive fur coat on the arm of a much older man.
An exceptional installment in this masterful series, About Face is Donna Leon at her finest..
As Brunetti delves into this shadowy, toxic world, he comes face to face with violence and corruption more dangerous than anything he\'s seen before.
In Italy, the environment has reached a crisis; incinerators across the south are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what, the polluted waters of Venice\'s canals sit in the shadow of a major chemical complex, and in Naples, enormous piles of garbage grow in the streets.
Her request seems to land near his investigation into a suspicious death and the illegal hauling of garbage.
This intelligent, mysterious woman entrances Brunetti with her love of Virgil and Cicero, but when she visits him later at the Questura and asks a favor, he is troubled.
She is Franca Marinello, La Superliftata , whom he\'s heard of but never met.
He is intrigued when they turn out to be fellow dinner guests, and even more so when he sees the woman\'s face, which has been disfigured by excessive plastic surgery.
Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti and his wife, Paola, are on their way to a dinner party when Brunetti\'s eye is caught by a couple ahead of them: a woman in an impossibly expensive fur coat on the arm of a much older man
