The twenty-ninth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling crime 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.
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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