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Commissario Brunetti's wife Paola is approached by one of her students with a question - is there a way for someone convicted of a crime to get a posthumous pardon? She speaks to Brunetti and admits it is about her grandfather, and he voices his opinion that he does not believe a pardon is possible. But later she is found stabbed to death in her apartment, and Brunetti's investigation into her grandfather uncovers a tale of Nazi collaboration and acquisition of art from desperate German Jews during World War II.

This moved along at a rather slow pace, but the history of opportunistic avarice by ruthless art brokers during the war was interesting. I must say, though, that through this series I have concluded that although Italy would be a lovely place to visit, the corruption in government that is so casually spoken of, that permeates through almost every aspect of life there, makes it a place I would not want to live in unless I was fabulously wealthy.