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Name: Aqua alta
Author: Donna Leon

In Venice, police chief Guido Brunetti confronts a web of corruption when American archaeologist Brett Lynch is beaten outside her home and a museum curator is later murdered. Both victims were linked to a celebrated exhibition of Chinese antiquities. Brunetti pieces together that the curator had been funneling artifacts from the show for personal gain, and Lynch has uncovered the same illicit trade. As Venice’s elite shuffle themselves through this moral quagmire, the ever‑present threat of the city’s legendary acqua alta proves no shield for the perpetrators. Can Brunetti unravel the crime before the second, even graver, murder occurs?

First publish date: 1996

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural

Authors: Donna Leon

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