The Death of Faith a.k.a. Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti 6)

Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door. Maria has left her nursing convent after the suspicious deaths of five patients. Is she creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation, or is there a more sinister scenario? Kriminalroman fra Venezia. Commissario Brunetti opsøges af en ung sygeplejerske-nonne, som har forladt sit kloster efter 5 patienters uventede død. Kort efter bliver hun kørt ned, og Brunettis undersøgelser fører ham ind i det religiøse establishment, hvor der foregår meget bag kulisserne 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. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to him as Suor' Immacolata, a nun