The twenty-ninth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series.
Donna Leon is author of the much-loved, best-selling series of novels featuring Commissario Brunetti and one of The Times' 50 Greatest Crime Writers. Widely considered one of the best detective series ever, with admirers including Ursula K. Le Guin and Antonia Fraser, the Brunetti Mysteries have won numerous awards around the world and been translated into thirty-five languages.
Donna Leon’s appreciation of her adopted city’s sublime yet fragile
magnificence is as fresh (and invigorating) today as it was when
Death at La Fenice was published in 1992. However, her anger at the
damage caused by tourism and pollution has grown stronger over the
years ... Should anyone still doubt that Leon is a superb novelist,
let them consider the scene in which Guido gently questions a woman
during the last few minutes of her life. You can feel the tension,
fear, horror - and wonder.
*The Times*
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