So, did you read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil? Ok...replace Savannah, Georgia with Venice, Italy. And replace the murder with the Fenice opera house burning down. Ok, now, don't get too attached to finding out more about the Fenice fire because it isn't as compelling as the murder was. In fact, by the end of the book you kind of think "Oh yeah, there WAS a fire at the beginning of this book, wasn't there?"

Listen, nobody catches local color quite like Berendt, but using the Fenice fire as the glue of this story doesn't really work that well.

And if you've read the book, then I shall direct you here.

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