Brunetti this time faces an adversary much more devious and powerful: a secretive religious organization that has the blessing of the Pope.Leon's tiptoes around the ideas of fanatical religious zealots. The plot never really takes shape and goes in many directions one of which is a pedophile priest at his daughter's school. The reader gets the feeling that nothing can really stop this kind of organizations, not in Italy at least, you can only try to contain them a little.