The Waters of Eternal Youth

✍ Scribed by Leon, Donna

• Book ID: 109979602
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 586 KB
• Series: Commissario Guido BrunettI 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802124807

✦ Synopsis

In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all.
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't remember a thing.
Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness—the girl's grandmother—asks Brunetti if he will investigate. Brunetti's not sure what to do. If a crime...
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