Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during March 2016 is …
The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon, a Guido Brunetti Mystery (25th in series)
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't remember a thing.
Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness — the girl's grandmother — asks Brunetti if he will investigate. Brunetti's not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, it would surely have passed the statute of limitations. But out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked older woman, who happens to be his mother-in-law's best friend, he agrees.
Brunetti soon finds himself unable to let the case rest, if indeed there is a case.
— The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for March 2016. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of March 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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