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Call Number: Mystery / Leon, Donna, Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Leon, Donna
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Leon, Donna	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Leon, Donna	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Leon, Donna	4-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024

One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.

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Librarians will love it. submitted by parkerj on June 17, 2014, 1:32pm There is enough in this story to interest anyone interested in rare books, and libraries. In this novel, the murder is not the story, so it is a very different style from what we have come to expect in Leon novels. Interesting, but without the depth of character present in the prior novels.