Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon (Commissario Guido Brunetti #25) involves an incident where a teenage Manuela is rescued from a Venice canal by a known drunk Pietro Cavanis. She suffered brain damage from oxygen deprivation and, now fifteen years later) has not recovered. She has the mental age of seven. Shortly, after her grandmother Contessa Demetriana Lando-Continui convinces Brunetti to reopen the case which was previously declared to be suicide, Cavanis is murdered.
Brunetti is assisted by Commissario Claudia Griffoni. She contributes insights, such as the observation that a man murdered Cavanis, who was stabbed.
“The knives are kept in the kitchen, and their husbands pass through there every day, countless times, and yet very few of them get stabbed. That’s because women don’t use knives, and they don’t stab people.”
She also had an important role in this story establishing a relationship with Manuela, the seven-year-old in the body of a young woman.
An enjoyable cozy mystery featuring life in Venice.
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