Acqua Alta

JACKET NOTES:  'Brunetti heard a siren shriek out and shatter the tranquility of the night...It was the siren at San Marco, calling out to the sleeping city the news that the waters were rising: acqua alta had begun.'
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage beating.
The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: 'Don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato.'
Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a man's body is found...
(©Pan Books)