A Measure of Despair

In Venice, an act of vandalism is committed—and the culprit, who doesn’t even think to hide from the scene of the crime, turns out to be none other than the wife of Commissioner Brunetti. Paola’s mind-boggling act brings discord into the commissioner’s family; meanwhile at work his boss keeps pestering him, demanding the immediate disclosure of the audacious robbery and the suspicious death connected to it.

This collision of professional and personal life puts Brunetti’s career at risk, and Paola’s secrets—secrets she, risking everything, refuses to reveal—push him to the very edge of the abyss…