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.
Crime writing of the highest order * Guardian *
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 *
Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a
narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian
heart . . . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective
series ever * The Washington Post *
Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be
quoted ... reading Leon is always an uplifting experience --
Mark Sanderson * The Times *
Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has
simply kept it up * Guardian *
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