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Willful behavior / Donna Leon.

Title
Willful behavior / Donna Leon.
Author
Leon, Donna
Publication
New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

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310 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.
Series Statement
A Penguin mystery
Alternative Title
Willful behaviour
Subject
  • Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) > Fiction
  • Police > Venice > Fiction
  • Jews, Italian > Venice > Fiction
  • Venice (Italy) > Fiction
Genre/Form
Mystery fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780143117582
  • 0143117580
LCCN
^^2010002773
OCLC
  • 457151554
  • SCSB-12776394
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library