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“Leon is probably the best mystery writer you’ve never heard of. . . . She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice…
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Through a Glass, Darkly
“Leon’s gentle pace allows conversation and atmosphere to develop so full and founded that you can taste the coffee and smell the flowers… You’ll want…
keep readingSuffer the Little Children
“Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . [Her] ability to capture the city’s social scene and internal politics is first-rate,…
keep readingA Sea of Troubles
“Brunetti’s humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.” —The New York Times Book Review
keep readingQuietly in Their Sleep
“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An…
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“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense…
keep readingA Noble Radiance
“Goes a long way to confirming Donna Leon’s claim to have taken literary possession of Venice . . . A Noble Radiance finds her…
keep readingMy Venice and Other Essays
“Leon . . . takes both loving and jaundiced looks at Italy and the United States, music, men and many other subjects in My…
keep readingHandel’s Bestiary
From a master of literary crime fiction, a literary, visual, and musical exploration of Handel’s arias.
keep readingThe Golden Egg
In the twenty-second book of this beloved, best-selling series, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the death of a mentally handicapped man, and suspects that his…
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