Wilful Behaviour

When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, cleary stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. laudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the cast seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploration of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...