Publisher's Synopsis
All Souls Day, 2017. On the Day of the Dead, Venetians travel to the cemetery island of San Michele to pay their respects to the departed. When an empty coffin is unearthed in the English section of the graveyard, Nathan Sutherland finds himself journeying into the dark past of a noble Venetian family. A British journalist, investigating the events of forty years previously, disappears. A young tourist, with an unhealthy interest in Venice's abandoned islands, is found drowned in the lagoon. A terrible secret is about to be unearthed, and a deadly reckoning awaits on Venice's Isle of the Dead.