Acqua Alta: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery: 5 (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries) - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802120288 ISBN 13: 9780802120281

Publisher: Grove Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains.

Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditional relationship between the two women. Brunetti's deliberate and humane investigation to uncover a motive for Brett's beating takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice and into a sinister web of art theft, fakery and base human desires.

Every fan’s first-pick Brunetti novel.” The New Yorker

Music and art mingle delightfully with murder and mayhem in the course of this very engaging story.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A subtle study of emotion and character A sophisticated mystery.” Library Journal

About this title

Book Description:

The fifth novel in the highly popular Commissario Brunetti series

About the Author:

Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon was born in New Jersey and has lived in Venice for thirty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0802120288
• ISBN 13: 9780802120281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304