Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)

In the first book in the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti detective series a high society murder leads Guido to investigate the darker side of beautiful Venice. Now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. There is little violent crime in Venice a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti the suave urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer a world-renowned conductor who died painfully from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice. But as the investigation unfolds a chilling picture slowly begins to take shapea detailed portrait of revenge painted with vivid strokes of hatred and shocking depravity. And the dilemma for Guido Brunetti will not be finding a murder suspect but rather narrowing the choices down to one.