Dimensions
130 x 198 x 26mm
Venice, 1756. One of the city's brightest young actors has been brutally murdered: nailed to a cross in a theatre, with his eyes removed and lines of Latin verse carved into his chest. The Doge launches a secret investigation into the murder, an investigation led by Pietro Viravolto, a dashing young adventurer and seducer (best friend of Casanova), and who currently awaits execution in the prison beneath the Bridge of Sighs. Viravolta is released from prison on the proviso that he will neither leave the city nor pursue the great love of his life, Anna, the married woman whose husband was responsible for Viravolta's incarceration.His investigations lead him to Luciana, the beautiful mistress of a Venetian senator; to Spadetti, the master glass-maker of Murano; and to Caffelli, the tormented priest of San Giogo Maggiore. Murder follows murder, each more gruesome than the last and, as Viravolta begins to draw the connections between these deaths, he finds himself embroiled in a terrible game of cat and mouse.
