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The new Commissario Brunetti novel, darker and more moving than ever before. Donna Leon at her most human best.

About the Author

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 35 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.

Reviews

There is the joy of contemplating Venice: the veiled and ancient heroine, with a sad haunted beauty slipping away year by year. Read it is the dusk, with a grappa
*Good Book Guide*

Brunetti ... long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives
*Evening Standard*

Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind
*Sunday Times*

Wonderfully familiar characters, a powerful sense of place and expert plotting
*Guardian*

Commissario Brunetti, a sleuth equal to Easy Rawlins, Lou Harper, and Philip Marlowe, appreciates the subtle differences between justice and revenge, embarrassment and humiliation, compulsion and corruption. A master of bureaucratic misdirection and an astute judge of character, Brunetti skillfully navigates the canals of Venetian subterfuge, while remaining unusually close to his intuitive spouse. In Doctored Evidence, a Romanian housekeeper is accused of murdering her Euro-pinching employer. Only Brunetti believes in her innocence, and his investigation leads him to an astonishingly apt and scholarly conclusion. In Uniform Justice, Brunetti investigates the suspicious suicide of a young military cadet at a prestigious academy, and with customary aplomb finds the underlying cause for the young man's death. David Colacci capably narrates both works; although his voice is distinctly American, he handles the Italian pronunciations with ease. Both works belong in public libraries; very highly recommended.-Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

There is the joy of contemplating Venice: the veiled and ancient heroine, with a sad haunted beauty slipping away year by year. Read it is the dusk, with a grappa -- Libby Purves * Good Book Guide *
Brunetti ... long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives * Evening Standard *
Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind * Sunday Times *
Wonderfully familiar characters, a powerful sense of place and expert plotting * Guardian *