The new novel from Donna Leon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Question of Belief
Donna Leon's previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti include Friends in High Places (which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction), Blood from a Stone, Through a Glass, Darkly and Suffer the Little Children.
[Leon's] portrait of Venice and modern Italy is, as always,
captivating...The lively conversations between...characters,
displaying Leon's sly humour, are a delight.
*Evening Standard*
With characteristic skill, Leon draws together multiple threads and
a well-rounded cast ... With the steady, unsentimental style that
has become her signature, Donna Leon keeps us hesitating until the
last corner is turned.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Leon's clear-eyed descriptions of Venice still make you long to
return to the calles and campos of the floating city.
*Sunday Telegraph*
More elegant, understated crime fighting from the mistress of La
Serinissima...A welcome return to the comfortable characters and
locations that her fans have come to love.
*Independent*
[Leon] is a master at weaselling her way into the venal byways of
human selfishness and laying them bare. ... There's a quietness to
the crimes here that is more powerful than outlandish violence, and
which points to the philosophical bedrock from which Leon so
effectively works.
*Scottish Sunday Herald*
Leon's fine 20th Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2010's A Question of Belief) explores violence against women and the treatment of the elderly. The Venetian medical examiner has ruled that Costanza Altavilla, a widow in her 60s, died of a heart attack, but Brunetti has his doubts. The discovery of several changes of clothes in various sizes in the deceased's modest apartment and Brunetti's talks with the insightful Signorina Elettra reveal that Altavilla was running a safe house for women escaping domestic violence. Could one of the abusive men have confronted Altavilla and scared her to death? Brunetti's investigation takes him to an old-age home, where Altavilla volunteered, in search of answers. Leon provides a vivid view of Venice, balancing the city's "glory days" with the reality of "the flaking dandruff of sun-blasted paint peeling from shutters." Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn't always end in an arrest or a trial. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
[Leon's] portrait of Venice and modern Italy is, as always,
captivating...The lively conversations between...characters,
displaying Leon's sly humour, are a delight. * Evening Standard
*
With characteristic skill, Leon draws together multiple threads
and a well-rounded cast ... With the steady, unsentimental
style that has become her signature, Donna Leon keeps us
hesitating until the last corner is turned. * Times Literary
Supplement *
Leon's clear-eyed descriptions of Venice still make you long to
return to the calles and campos of the floating city. * Sunday
Telegraph *
More elegant, understated crime fighting from the mistress
of La Serinissima...A welcome return to the comfortable
characters and locations that her fans have come to love. *
Independent *
[Leon] is a master at weaselling her way into the venal byways of
human selfishness and laying them bare. ... There's a quietness to
the crimes here that is more powerful than outlandish violence, and
which points to the philosophical bedrock from which Leon so
effectively works. * Scottish Sunday Herald *
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