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|date=4 Mar March 2004
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Commissario Guido Brunetti is present when the body of a young man is pulled out of a Venetian canal. Everyone else seems determined that the death will be classed as robbery with violence, a mugging gone wrong, but Brunetti isn't convinced. He's even less convinced when drugs are found in the flat where the young man, an American serviceman, lived. Then the American doctor who came to identify his body apparently commits suicide and Brunetti is sure that someone is going to a great deal of trouble to cover up the reasons for the first murder and that the 'someone' has a great deal of influence.
If you like this type of book you might also enjoy reading Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen books. [[Dead Lagoon]] is set in Venice and would be a good starting point. You might also like to try Andrea Camilleri's [[The Shape of Water]] which is the first in the Salvo Montalbano series, set in Sicily.
{{amazontext|amazon=0099469375}} {{waterstonestextamazonUStext|waterstonesamazon=52508460099469375}} [[Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti Novels in Chronological Order]]
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