Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, what looks first like the obvious murder of a tranvestite prostitute gets much more complicated when the body turns out to be that of a bank director. Our poor dective has to cancel his vacation in the mountains to find out what is what.  (ITL614, $7.99)

Italian Mysteries
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery