The landmark thirtieth instalment of the bestselling Commissario Brunetti series
Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime
Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the
bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty
years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and
China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been
translated into thirty-five languages and have been published
around the world.
Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been
highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the
CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored
Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.
The climax is nothing less than a trip - across the laguna - into
the heart of darkness ... Leon's special skill is to splice
glimpses of la dolce vita with acute analysis of moral and ethical
dilemmas ... The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three
decades is an epic achievement - in its own way quite the equal of
Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.
*The Times*
It's colourful and beautifully written.
*Peterborough Telegraph*
Needless to say, by venturing outside the comfort zone of his own
prejudices, this deeply simpatico detective learns a lot about his
city, his countrymen and himself. And so do we.
*The New York Times Book Review*
Make way for the thirtieth novel in Leon's beloved, bestselling
series about Commissario Guido Brunetti.
*Crimereads*
Leon's devoted audience may be shocked to realize that this latest
Guido Brunetti novel is the thirtieth in the series, which only
goes to show that sometimes abiding relationships never lose the
shock of the new . . . Leon's beloved series shows no signs of
aging.
*Booklist*
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