What hasn't one read about detectives and police officers: brazen, tough, cynical, cheeky, brutal, idiotic, witty - 150 years of crime tradition have explored every corner of the investigator's psyche - or so one would think. But someone like Constable Guarnaccia has never been seen before. Magdalen Nabb describes in "Death in the Palazzo" a man full of inhibitions and shyness. Reserved to the point of anxiety, defensive to the point of drowsiness, fatalistic to the point of disinterest. In one of the oldest families in the city, a gun has gone off: into the neck of the master of the house. Now Bianca Maria Corsi Ulderighi Della Logghia is a widow - and what a widow she is! The woman instills unease in Guarnaccia. He is tasked with clarifying the circumstances of the death. Everyone expects it to be a suicide, at most an accident. Guarnaccia speaks with this person and that, he does not impose himself, he cannot.