Donna Leon: Schöner Schein

SYNOPSIS

Venetian transport firm chief Stefano Ranzatois is murdered at home. Commissario Guido Brunetti works out it's fruit cargo was a cover for an illegal waste disposal business. It's run by Franco Barbaro, apparently the lover of businessman Maurizio Cataldo, who's cultivated wife Franca flirts with Brunetti for reasons rooting in a much earlier homicide. Brunetti's father-in-law seems implicated. Vice-Questore Patta has reached mandatory retirement age, so he decides nostalgically to take an active part in the investigation one last time. The man he helps arrest turns out to be an undercover mafia fighter, who is later murdered.