The Golden Egg: 22 (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries) - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802122426 ISBN 13: 9780802122421

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Synopsis

Over the years, Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-driven mysteries all over the world. Brunetti, both a perceptive sleuth and a principled family man, has exposed readers to Venice in all its aspects: its history, beauty, architecture, seasons, food, and social life, but also the crime and corruption that seethe below the surface of La Serenissima. In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Commissario Guido Brunetti's wife Paola comes to him with a request. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry clearers has suffered a fatal sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing or helping him. To please her, Brunetti investigates the death and is surprised to find nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. And yet, there is a body. As secrets unravel, Brunetti suspects an aristocratic family might be connected to the case. But why would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead?

About this title

Review:

"[An] unusually reflective detective story."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"Appreciative of feminine charms, the deeply uxorious Brunetti amply displays the keen intelligence and wry humor that has endeared this series to so many."--Publishers Weekly

"[Readers] will savor the pleasures of dialogue as elliptical in its way as Henry James and a retrospective shock when they finally appreciate the import of the tale's unobtrusive opening scene and its sly title."--Kirkus Reviews

"Rating: A."--Deadly Pleasures

Book Description:

The eagerly anticipated twenty-second instalment in the internationally acclaimed, bestselling Commissario Brunetti series

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0802122426
• ISBN 13: 9780802122421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304