Death at La Fenice

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But there are compensations, and she was reminded of them when a tram on which she was travelling in Amsterdam a few years ago stopped suddenly, throwing her onto the floor. "I stood up and looked around, and the tram was full of people who couldn't have cared less if my head had fallen off when I fell over." She knew that if it had been an Italian tram, the response would have been different.

There are currently 32 books in this series with the 32nd title, So Shall You Reap, published in 2023. This month World Book Club talks to award-winning American writer Donna Leon about her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice. PW: In Uniform Justice, both Venice and the San Martino Military Academy are "closed worlds"—one surrounded by water and the other by "tradition" and a code of silence. Are you Continue reading »

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Brunetti is painted as a sensitive man who, despite his long years as a detective, has a distaste for the violence he encounters in his work. This is in line with the cozy genre itself, with its general avoidance of excessive violence. Leon rounds out his character throughout the book by giving several glimpses into his past, enabling the reader to understand his character. Death at La Fenice (1992), the first novel by American academic and crime-writer Donna Leon, is the first of the internationally best-selling Commissario Brunetti mystery series, set in Venice, Italy. The novel won the Japanese Suntory prize, [1] and its sequel is Death in a Strange Country (1993). Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Akzeptabel. schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! BV3516 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! EQ1042 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500. Best known for her Venetian mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti (The Golden Egg, etc.), Leon turns to real life with this engaging yet overstuffed essay collection on everything from Continue reading »Donna Leon in Venice, where her crime novels are set. Credit: Gaby Gerster/Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times –bestselling, award-winning series.

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Well written with believable characters. Story moves along nicely, descriptive scenes add to the mood and more importantly a believable tale. Donna Leon has given fans of subtle, clever and literate mysteries something to cheer about. . . . A wonderful read.' Tony Hillerman Read more Look Inside Details Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates a murder on Murano, the famed island of glassmakers, in Leon's assured 15th Continue reading » Such is Brunetti's popularity that an industry has grown up around him. Visitors clutch copies of Brunetti's Venice: Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective. They take home Brunetti's Cookbook. A German production company has made 20 Commissario Brunetti telemovies, which Leon assures me are "pretty bad". She reconsiders. "No, they're not bad. They're very, very German." Poggioli, Sylvia. “Donna Leon’s Venice: A Tale Of Two Cities.” NPR Books, National Public Radio, 20 Aug. 2007.