American author Donna Leon presents the eighteenth installment of her acclaimed Brunetti series. Here, Venetian sleuth Commissario Brunetti continues his investigation of the Italian Mafia in emphatic fashion. But when Carabinieri Maggiore Filipo Guarino of the Marghera police department is murdered, Brunetti's investigation takes an unexpected turn and leads him to a suspicious trucking company and a charming businessman's wife.