Why a Booktrail?
1990s – Another book with two titles. This makes us want to read it to see which one fits best. The fourth in the Brunetti series.
A Venetian Reckoning / Death and Judgment (Brunetti 4)
What you need to know before your trail
Italian Dolomite mountains – A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains.
Saint Lucia – a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train.
Is there a connection between the two tragedies?
Brunetti looks for answers and ends up stumbling upon a seedy Venetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches far beyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venice before Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what is really going on.
Travel Guide
This is one of the darkest of the Brunetti cases as it is not just limited to Venice and its canals or even Italy but it has tentacles which stretch out as far as the Austrian- Italian border with the gruesome discovery of some very unexpected cargo.
The theme of the slave trade who deal in women is a tough subject.
Italian Dolomite mountains -( north of Tarvisio)
“Snow fell for the first time in the mountains separating northern Italy from Austria…
Within a half- hour the roads of the pass above Tarvisio were slick and deadly”
What falls out of the truck on that hillside, no one could have guessed.
The stage is set for international intrigue and the grim nature of people smuggling. The level of intrigue and corruption at the highest levels of all sections of society is clear – and whether it be the political, judicial or business sectors, the lines between them are certainly blurred.
Santa Lucia station
Added to this, an international lawyer, Carlo Treviso, on an Intercity train drawing into Venice and more deaths soon follow. Mafia style deaths. Difficult to stomach for some. The answer could be found in a seedy little Venetian bar…
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