Falling in Love
“He pulled out his phone and, feeling ridiculous for his continued reluctance to go and talk to Rizzardi, called the pathologist’s number.Rizzardi answered by asking, ‘You talk to her yet, Guido?’‘Yes.’‘What can you do about it?’Brunetti had been thinking exactly this since he had spoken to the girl. ‘Try to find out if we have a camera over there.’‘Camera?’ Rizzardi asked.‘There are some in different places in the city,’ Brunetti explained. ‘Although it’s not likely there’d be one there.’After a pause that could have been polite or impolite, Rizzardi inquired, ‘Too few tourists?’‘Something like that.’All irony fled Rizzardi’s voice and he asked, ‘Why would anyone do something like that?’‘I have no idea.’ The son of a friend of Brunetti’s had been attacked on the street by a drug addict five years before, but this sort of random attack – a kind of vandalism against persons – was virtually unknown in the city. Rizzardi had no need to know that the girl’s assailant had spoken to her, so ...all Brunetti did was thank his friend for calling him.‘I hope you find out who did it,’ Rizzardi said, then added, ‘I’ve got to go,’ and hung up.Left to his own thoughts, Brunetti mentally listed the agencies that had installed telecameras in the city.MoreLess
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