In the twenty-eigth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, Commissario Guido Brunetti is drawn reluctantly into an old friend's long-hidden mystery.
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.
Leon’s novels are unshowy and imbued with the humanist outlook that
makes Brunetti such an appealing character.
*Sunday Times*
[A] charming series, and it is a pleasure to spend time with
Brunetti, his academic wife, Paola, and their children as they eat
delicious food and drink good wine.
*Literary Review*
Once again, Leon transforms what might have been a straightforward
mystery into something much richer and more resonant ... Far more
than whodunit, the real subject of this novel (and Leon's work in
general) is what we all do to one another.
*Booklist*
Just as exciting as anything by Lee Child or Jeffrey Deaver.
*Evening Standard*
Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to
read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.
*The Times*
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