PublishedArrow, May 2009 |
ISBN9780099536635 |
FormatSoftcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.2cm |
The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli s apartment, fracture his skull and grab his eighteen-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti, pulled from his bed by the news, arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent paediatrician has suffered such a violent assault.
But soon Brunetti begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and an underworld where babies can be bought for cash linked with a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And knowledge can be as destructive as greed certain information about one s neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain.
