Death at La Fenice

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Brunetti’s own character is made clear to the reader throughout the course of the novel; he is a family man who is extremely good at his job, preferring to investigate motive through looking at human dynamics and understanding each suspect, rather than relying on intuition. He stresses this to his wife Paola, who enjoys choosing who she believes is the culprit at the beginning of each case, and who Brunetti says is always wrong, Deftly plotted and smoothly written in the Ngaio Marsh cultural mode, but recommended even for readers who, like Brett Lynch, don't care for Verdi.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Leon's novels sell well in Switzerland, but she can go about her business undisturbed there. "Everyone is invisible in Switzerland," she has said. In Venice, she is regularly bailed up by people in the grip of Brunettimania, many of them from German-speaking countries ("The centre of the cult is Austria," she says). Venetians themselves leave her alone because, at her insistence, the books aren't published in Italian. Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! K7420 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500. Rustin, Susanna. “Donna Leon: Why I became an Eco-Detective writer.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 15 Apr. 2017.Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Akzeptabel. schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! BX127 Sprache: Deutsch. This month World Book Club talks to award-winning American writer Donna Leon about her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice.

Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! EB595 Sprache: Deutsch. Donna Leon is an American author by birth and an Italian critic by avocation, having lived in Venice for three decades and having witnessed the artistic beauty but also the social and political ills of that city and the mainland it literally clings to. Starting in 1992, with her first mystery called Death at La Fenice, she has written 24 crime capers with an indelible crime-solving protagonist, as unforgettable as the magnificent city in which he lives and works. His name is Guido Brunetti, and he is the Commissario of Venice, a term meaning police commissioner in Italian.

From the first gallery, there came a burst of coughing; someone dropped a book, perhaps a purse; but the door to the corridor behind the orchestra pit remained dosed. Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. außen mit Gebrauchsspuren, sonst innen guter Zustand, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! EG1403 Sprache: Deutsch. Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! CN612 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Commissario Guido Brunetti, out of a sense of guilt and at the urging of his compassionate wife, investigates the suspicious death of a disabled man, Davide Cavanella, in Leon’s intriguing 22nd Continue reading » 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. Cyanide poisoning during the second-act intermission of La Traviata leaves the eminent conductor Helmut Wellauer dead, survived by a constellation of suspects from prima Flavia Petrelli (whose lesbian liaison with a wealthy American archeologist, Brett Lynch, Wellauer was threatening to expose) to director Franco Santore (furious over Wellauer's refusal to honor a bargain to find a job for Santore's protege)—and including of course Wellauer's suddenly wealthy, and much younger, widow Elizabeth. The investigating officer, Guido Brunetti, Vice-Commissario of the Venice Police, brings to his first case tact, persistence, and a useful sympathy with young women—which becomes suddenly pertinent when he unearths Wellauer's prewar involvement with a family of three star-crossed girls. Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Akzeptabel. insgesamt deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! EN1432 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 549.The feeling that tourists are lowering the tone of the place, and trampling it to death, is not new. "Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice," the American author Henry James wrote in 1882, "there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors." Donna Leon in Venice, where her crime novels are set. Credit: Gaby Gerster/Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich I am a big fan of series and am glad I began with Book #1. I have already started Book #2, Death in a Strange Country. I think I have many hours of enjoyable reading ahead of me! Unbekannter Einband. Condition: Gut. Ausgabe von 1995, außen mit Gebrauchsspuren, schief gelesen, Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! CM2508 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.