The Death of Faith (UK)
Quietly in Their Sleep (US)First broadcast 20050430.
dramatised by Nick McCarty.
‘She reached a nervous hand up to her temple, and Brunetti saw her slide her fingers back, seeking, the protective comfort of her wimple. But instead, she pulled her fingers away as though they had been burned.’
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door.
Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor’lmmacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients.
Brunetti offers to make some enquiries, but his interviews with the principal heirs--including the unpleasant Signor Da Pre and the excessively pious Benedetta Lerini--suggest no cause for concern. Nor does his meeting with the nursing home's chaplain, Padre Pio Cavaletti.
Is Maria simply creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled on to a deeply rooted, far more sinister scenario--and put her own life in very grave danger...?
Brunetti....Danny Webb
Paola....Emma Gregory
Vianello....Steve Hodson
Elettra....Jenny Funnell
Padre Pio....Michael Jayston
Signorina Lerini....Angela Pleasence
Maria Testa....Tracy Kearney
Donatella....Ann Bell
Chiara....Tilly Gaunt
Raffi....Sam Collard
Patta....Douglas Livingstone
Miotti....Peter Acre
Da Prè....Philip Fox
Contessa Crivoni....Frances Jeater
The voice of Venice....Valerie Sarruf
Directed by Jane Morgan.
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--- Inga
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