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|title=About Face

|author=Donna Leon

|isbn=978-0434019434

|website=http://www.donnaleon.net/

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Paola and Guido Brunetti were guests at a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, and Brunetti was charmed (Paola thought a little ''too'' charmed) by Franca Marinella, the young wife of an elderly Venetian businessman. Everything about her was beautiful, apart from her face which looked as though it had been the subject of botched plastic surgery and which had earned her the nickname 'la super liftata'. After the initial shock Brunetti forgot about it: they enjoyed chatting about the books which they both read. Marinella's husband, Maurizio Cataldo, was the real subject of the dinner party though - Paola's father was considering going into business with him and Conte Orazio Fallier valued his son-in-law's opinion of the man.