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Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. 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, Through a Glass, Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, and most recently, The Girl of His Dreams.
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
