"Carnival For The Dead" Taken from the flap of the book: It is February and Carnival time in Venice. Forensic pathologist Teresa Lupo visits the city to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her beloved bohemian Aunt Sofia. But from the moment she is met off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed in the costume of the Plague Doctor, Teresa starts to suspect that all is not well. There are no clues to Sofia's disappearance, and a visit to her rather strange apartment in the Dorsoduro confirms her suspicions.