Unto us a son is given
Call Number
- MYSTERY LEON (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Publication Information
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.
Physical Description
259 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
Count Orazio Falier urges his son-in-law, detective Guido Brunetti, to investigate the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. Brunetti wonders why the old man can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. Then Gonzalo dies unexpectedly, and a friend in Venice for the memorial service is strangled in her hotel room after protesting the adoption.
Notes
Maps on endpapers.
Sequel to: The temptation of forgiveness.