The Death of Faith

<p>Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door.<br><br> Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor’lmmacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the <i>casa di cura</i> in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients.<br><br> Brunetti offers to make some enquiries, but finds now obvious cause for concern. Is Maria simply creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation?<br><br> Or has she stumbled on to a deeply rooted, far more sinister scenario - and put her own life in very grave danger . . . ?</p>