When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wife Paola's students. Intelligent and serious, she asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it-until Claudia is found dead. Unable to find any living relatives, he visits the elderly Austrian woman who was once Claudia's grandfather's lover and with whom Claudia was close-and is stunned by the extraordinary art collection she kee