Transient Desires

When two young American women are badly injured in a boating accident, joyriding in Venice's Laguna with two young Italians, Commissario Guido Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behaviour of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumoured to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Brunetti needs to enlist the hlep of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Girffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues only adds to the difficulty of solving this peculiarly horrible crime.