At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder.
Das Wasser in Venedig steht denjenigen bis zum Hals, die so falsch sind wie die Kunst, mit der sie handeln. Und das nicht nur weil Hochwasser die Stadt bedroht, sondern weil Commissario Brunetti ermittelt.