The Death of Faith
By (Author) Donna Leon
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books
1st March 2012
5th January 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 21mm
224g
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor'lmmacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients. Brunetti offers to make some enquiries, but finds now obvious cause for concern. Is Maria simply creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation Or has she stumbled on to a deeply rooted, far more sinister scenario - and put her own life in very grave danger...
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher.