Commissioner Guido Brunetti is asked for help by a colleague from the Carabinieri, investigating the murder of the owner of a small transportation company. But they’re clearly hiding something and not telling everything, forcing Brunetti once again to turn to the services of the charming Elettra—his boss’s secretary—who knows hacker techniques. Finding the clue is especially difficult because the commissioner’s attention is endlessly distracted by the mysterious Francesca Marinello—a young wife of a major businessman whose once-beautiful face has been disfigured by plastic surgeons, turning it into an immobile mask. What secrets does that face hold? Brunetti won’t find the answer to that question until two more bloody murders happen.