Over the years, Donna Leon\'s best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven mysteries all over the world.
But why would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead?.
As secrets unravel, Brunetti suspects an aristocratic family might be connected to the case.
And yet, there is a body.
As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed.
To please her, Brunetti investigates the death and is surprised to find nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no driver\'s license, no credit cards.
The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry clearers has suffered a fatal sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing or helping him.
In The Golden Egg , as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Commissario Guido Brunetti\'s wife Paola comes to him with a request.
Brunetti, both a perceptive sleuth and a principled family man, has exposed readers to Venice in all its aspects: its history, beauty, architecture, seasons, food, and social life, but also the crime and corruption that seethe below the surface of La Serenissima .
Over the years, Donna Leon\'s best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven mysteries all over the world
