Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007SIV41G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 153 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post. Death at La Fenice is the first novel in Donna Leon’s internationally best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, a notoriously difficult conductor is poisoned, and suspects abound. Revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine play a role. The novel that started it all, Death at La Fenice is an entrancing mystery, rich in atmosphere.Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. When legendary German conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room two acts into a performance of La Traviata , police commissario Guido Brunetti is called in. The narrative's best moments involve Brunetti's wry exchanges with his colleagues and the cunningly masked, obvious solution. Though burdened by a dictatorial superior and two lumpen subordinates, Brunetti gets help from his aristocratic wife and her well-connected parents. From Publishers Weekly A breathless beginning and an unexpected lack of reference to the lush setting mark this lively launch of a projected series of Venetian mysteries. Among those who might have provided the cyanide poison that killed the maestro, immediate suspects include the vaunted conductor's coolly indifferent young wife and those many
Billy J. Hobbs said Leon debuts with outstanding thriller!. Venice is for lovers, or so they say. It is also the setting in this thriller, the first of a series by Donna Leon, titled "Death at La Fenice." La Fenice is the name of Venice's famed opera house and in this novel, death is the event de jour, as a well-known G. Cabushka said Boring. Very slowly evolving procedural police story. I had a difficult time keeping with it as I kept falling asleep when I picked it up. Practically nothing happened for 70% of the novel after the discovery of the murder. I'm not familiar with Venice. The novel may h. Great writing janNZ It is many years since I visited Venice but this brought the city back to me with Donna Leon's fabulous descriptions of the city and its culture. Not only that but there was the bonus of a really excellent story. This book was recommended to me and is the first