When it turns out that the body happens to be that of a respected and influential bank director, Inspector Brunetti smells a blackmail-and-double-life sex crime. It's a safe bet to claim that dead bodies of middle-aged men wearing red lingerie and red high-heeled shoes are rare even in the morbidly kinky carnival-mad city of Venice. Inspector Brunetti uncovers highly immoral goings-on in one of Venice's most eminent strongholds of morality There are many more high-ranking personalities involved, she says, but before she can be properly interrogated at police headquarters, she hangs herself in her cell with the aid of several dark-suited men, no doubt pillars of society themselves They, precisely, are what drove her to kill the men. Although she tries to escape, she ultimately confesses that she helped bring the young women to Venice, but had nothing to do with the snuff films. When the attorney's partner is also found murdered, the trail leads to Signora Ceroni, who knew all three men and who apparently knows a great deal more. Brunetti realizes that the attorney and tax adviser dealt in the traffic of young women from eastern Europe who were forced into prostitution and into these murderous film productions. The girl, a schoolmate of Brunetti's own daughter Chiara, gives her the videocassette of a "snuff" film featuring the live rape and murder of a woman. Although the attorney's wife refuses to help Brunetti in his investigations, her teenage daughter is more obliging. They're normal murder cases for Venice's Inspector Brunetti, and, sadly, it's normal for him to encounter barely repressed indifference or relief among the mourners of these distinguished pillars of Venetian society. And on both bodies the police find notebooks containing phone numbers without names. Venice's Inspector Brunetti must crack a murderous human-traffic ring run by the cream of Venetian societyįirst it was a high-society attorney, then a distinguished tax adviser both murdered in the space of a few days.
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