Author:
Paolo Lanzotti
Publisher:
Tre60
Release Date:
28-02-2025
Venice 1754. Since leaving the Angeli Neri (Black Angels), the secret agent corps of the State Inquisition, Marco Leon has lived a seemingly quiet life as librarian to an elderly Venetian nobilhomo. The Angels miss him, but he has chosen to be with Marion, the woman he loves, and he does not regret his decision. However, his past is always lurking: surprisingly, Alvise Geminiani, the inquisitor in charge of the Angels, asks him to return to investigate, because a hitman, Fabio Groggia, has been killed, and the affair may involve a Venetian patrician, Enea Dorigo. In addition, some shady dealings would seem to lead to the Lazzaretto Vecchio, a very important Venetian garrison against epidemics. Before long, more murders happen and some clues lead Marco to Eugenio Flores, a patrician business partner of Enea Dorigo. But what relationship could there be between the two patricians, the Lazzaretto, and the many murders that have occurred in recent times? And who is the mysterious Mask that roams the city asking uncomfortable questions? Before the very existence of the Republic is jeopardized by an epidemic, Mark has only to use his proverbial intuition to get to the bottom of the tangled affair, until the final confrontation with the murderer. A confrontation from which only one of the two will emerge alive.