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Donna Leon Complete Catalogue

The Waters of Eternal YouthDonna Leon_________________________________________________

In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspectorhas been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to pettycrimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebratedseries, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all.

Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable toswim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to anearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, thoughnot before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state ofpermanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed hesaw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day hecouldn't remember a thing.

Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy andaristocratic patroness-the girl's grandmother-asks Brunetti if he willinvestigate. Brunetti's not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, itwould surely have passed the statute of limitations. But out of a mixture ofcuriosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked olderwoman, who happens to be his mother-in-law's best friend, he agrees.

Brunetti soon finds himself unable to let the case rest, if indeed there is a

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Brunetti's CookbookRoberta Pianaro, foreword by Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunettinovels have long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions offood. Multicourse lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacksgrabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busyday, or a working lunch at a neighborhood trattoria in the course of aninvestigation have all delighted Brunetti, as well as Leon's readers andreviewers. And then there's the coffee, thepastries, the wine, and thegrappa.

In Brunetti's Cookbook, Donna Leon's best friend and favorite cook brings tolife these fabulous Venetian meals. Eggplant crostini, orrechiette withasparagus, pumpkin ravioli, roasted artichokes, baked branzino, pork raguwith porcini-these are just a few of the over ninety recipes for antipasti,primi, secondi, and dolci. The recipes are joined by excerpts from the novels,four-color illustrations, and six original essays by Donna Leon on food andlife in Venice. Charming, insightful, and full of personality, they are theperfect addition to this long awaited book.Grove/Atlantic

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Acqua AltaA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

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

Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese potteryin 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 byFlavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditional relationship betweenthe two women. Brunetti's deliberate and humane investigation to uncover amotive for Brett's beating takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice and into asinister web of art theft, fakery andbase human desires.

"Every fan's first-pick Brunetti novel." - The New Yorker

"Music and art mingle delightfully with murder and mayhem in the course ofthis very engaging story." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A subtle study of emotion and character… A sophisticated mystery." -Library Journal

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Uniform JusticeA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate thedeath of a young cadet. The boy has been found hanged, a presumedsuicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, soclose in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a communitythat is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and itsprivileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is theson of a doctor and former politician, aman of an impeccable integrity all toorare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro is clearly and understandably devastated byhis son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seemconvinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appearseager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of thecircumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is facedwith a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of theother witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involvethemselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greaterthan this one death? ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario GuidoBrunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction,

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My Venice and Other EssaysDonna Leon_________________________________________________

Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendousamount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery seriesfeaturing Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have builtup not just for her intricate plots and gripping narratives, but for her insightinto the culture, politics, family-life, and history of Venice, one of the world'smost-treasured cities, and Leon's home for over thirty years. Readers lovehow Leon opens the doorsto a private Venice, beyond the reach of themillions of international tourists who delight in the city's canals, food, and artevery year.

My Venice and Other Essays will be a treat for Leon's many fans, as well asfor lovers of Italy and La Serenissima. For many years, Leon, who is aperennial #1 bestseller in Germany, has written essays for Europeanpublications. Collected here are the best of these: over fifty funny, charming,passionate, and insightful essays that range from battles over garbage in thecanals to the troubles with rehabbing Venetian real estate. She sharesepisodes from her life in Venice, explores her love of opera, and recountstales from in and around her country house in the mountains. With pointedobservations and humor, she also explores her family history and former lifein New Jersey, and the idea of the Italian man. ________________________________

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The Jewels of ParadiseDonna Leon_________________________________________________

Internationally praised for her Commissario Guido Brunetti series, DonnaLeon's first standalone novel features a widely different but equallycompelling sleuth, Caterina Pellegrini. Caterina is a native Venetian, and likeso many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With adoctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England.Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a positionback home, she jumps at the opportunity.

The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks,believed to contain the papers of Agostino Steffani, a baroque composerhave been discovered. Deeply-connected in religious and political circles, thecomposer died childless; now two Venetians, descendants of his cousins,each claim inheritance. Caterina's job is to examine any papers found in thetrunks to discover Steffani's "testamentary disposition" of the composer. Butwhen her research takes her in unexpected directions she begins to wonderjust what secrets these trunks may hold. From a masterful writer, The Jewelsof Paradise is a superb novel, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history andgreed. ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido

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Death and JudgmentA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's best sellingCommissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerouscargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite Mountains. Meanwhile, aprominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train boundfor Venice. Brunetti suspects a connection between the two tragedies.Digging deep for an answer, he stumbles upon a seedy Venetian bar thatholds the key to a crime network that reaches far beyond the laguna. But itwill take another violent death in Venice before Brunetti and his colleaguescan get to the bottom of what is behind the horrific events. ________________________________

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

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The Golden EggA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Over the years, Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti serieshas conquered the hearts of lovers of finely-plotted character-drivenmysteries all over the world. Brunetti, both a perceptive sleuth and aprincipled family man, has exposed readers to Venice in all its aspects: itshistory, beauty, architecture, seasons, food, and social life, but also thecrime and corruption that seethe below the surface of La Serenissima.

In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, CommissarioGuido Brunetti's wife Paola comes to him with a request. The mentallyhandicapped man who worked at their dry clearers has suffered a fatalsleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and diedwithout anyone noticing or helping him. To please her, Brunetti investigatesthe death and is surprised to find nothing on the man: no birth certificate, nodriver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government isconcerned, he never existed. And yet, there is a body. As secrets unravel,Brunetti suspects an aristocratic family might be connected to the case. Butwhy would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead? ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido

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By its CoverA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Donna Leon's critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling CommissarioGuido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty ofits setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploringpolitics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture. In the pages of Leon'snovels, the beloved conversations of the Brunetti family have drawn ontopics of art and literature, but books are at the heart of this novel in a waythey never have been before.

One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from thedirector of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out ofseveral rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: theculprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professorfrom a Kansas university. The only problem-the man fled the library earlierthat day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn'texist.

As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seeminglyharmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns upbrutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about whatmakes a man innocent, or guilty.

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GondolaDonna Leon_________________________________________________

Of all the trademarks of Venice, none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. Inthis beautifully illustrated collection, internationally bestselling author DonnaLeon tells fascinating stories about this famous boat.

First used in medieval Venice as an easily maneuverable getaway boat, thegondola evolved over the centuries into a floating pleasure palace thatfacilitated the romantic escapades of the Venetian elite. Now a touristfavorite, the gondola has never ceased to be a part of authentic Venice. Eachboat's 280 pieces are carefully fashioned in a maestro 's workshop-thoughLeon also recounts a tale of an American friend who decided to make agondola all on his own, a feat that took five years to complete. But thegondola is a work of art well worth the labor-and the barcarole sung from itsprow are no less masterful. The best of these popular sings sung by thegondolieri are included on an accompanying CD, including an exclusive trackfrom Cecilia Bartoli. ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of the internationally bestselling CommissarioGuido Brunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger forFiction, among other awards, Leon was born in New Jersey and has lived inVenice for thirty years.

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My Venice and Other EssaysDonna Leon_________________________________________________

Donna Leon's wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario GuidoBrunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives,but also for their insight into the culture, politics, family life, and history ofVenice, one of the world's most treasured cities and Leon's home for overthirty years. Leon's books open the doors to a private Venice, beyond thereach of the millions of international travelers who delight in the city's canals,food, and art every year.

My Venice and Other Essays is a treat for lovers of Italy and La Serenissima.Collected here are over fifty funny, charming, passionate, and insightfulessays that range from battles over garbage in the canals to troubles withrehabbing Venetian real estate. Leon shares episodes from her life in Venice,explores her love of opera, and recounts tales from in and around hercountry house in the mountains. With poignant observations and humor, shealso explores her family history and former life in New Jersey, and the idea ofthe Italian man. 'Leon . . . takes both loving and jaundiced looks at Italy andthe United States, music, men and many other subjects in My Venice.'- NewYork Times Book Review

'Entertaining [and] unapologetically opinionated.'- New York Times

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By its CoverA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

In the pages of Donna Leon's internationally bestselling Commissario GuidoBrunetti mysteries, the conversations of the Brunetti family have oftenturned to topics of art and literature, but books are at the heart of this novelin a way they never have been before. One afternoon, Brunetti gets a franticcall from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolenpages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the caseseems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, avisiting American professor. But the man fled the library earlier that day, andafter checking his credentials, it becomes clear that he is not who he said hewas. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when aseemingly harmless character turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti mustquestion his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.

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Falling in LoveA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved CommissarioGuido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroatworld of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli-then asuspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years afterBrunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice tosing the lead in Tosca.

Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receivesa standing ovation. Back in her dressing room, she finds bouquets of yellowroses-too many roses. Every surface of the room is covered with them. Ananonymous fan has been showering Flavia with these beautiful gifts inLondon, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and now, Venice, but she no longerfeels flattered. A few nights later, invited by Brunetti to dine at his in-laws'palazzo, Flavia confesses her alarm at these excessive displays of adoration.And when a talented young Venetian singer who has caught Flavia's attentionis savagely attacked, Brunetti begins to think that Flavia's fears are justifiedin ways neither of them imagined. He must enter in the psyche of anobsessive fan before Flavia, or anyone else, comes to harm.

Praise for Falling In Love

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Quietly in Their SleepA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympatheticprotagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursingsister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave herconvent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual castof characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simplycreating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has shestumbled onto something very real and very sinister-something that placesher own life in imminent danger? A beautiful, suspense-filled novel, Quietly inTheir Sleep is Donna Leon at the top of her form. ________________________________


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Through a Glass, DarklyA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti andInspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti-anenvironmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste beingdumped into the city's waters-released from prison. But on the steps of thepolice headquarters, they come face-to-face with Ribetti's cantankerousfather-in-law, who has been overheard making threats against Ribetti. Andwhen the body of a nightwatchman is at the father-in-law's glass factory nextto an annotated copy of Dante's Inferno, Brunetti must find out if there is aconnection between this and whoever is ruining the waters of the lagoon. ________________________________


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Brunetti's VeniceWalks with the City's Best-Loved Detective

Toni Sepeda, introduction by Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon's internationally best-selling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice'schurches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzosIn Brunetti's Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps ofBrunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye forchange in his native city, his fascination with the past, his ear for languageand his passion for food and drink, and his familiarity with the dark realitiesof crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walkacross La Serenissima.Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as thelagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Importantlocations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes andcharacters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from thenovels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon'swonderful mysteries.

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A Noble RadianceA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body isfound to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest,most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in thehighest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind theyoung man's disappearance and murder.

'A gripping intellectual mystery... Culturally rich.' - Publishers Weekly

'Goes a long way to confirming Donna Leon's claim to have taken literarypossession of Venice... A Noble Radiance finds her at the height of herpower. It gives the reader a delightful foretaste of summer holidays to come,but it also offers much more than that.' - Independent on Sunday (UK)

'The marvel of this book is that almost every detail on every page forms partof a succession of clues, planted with exquisite precision to unraveling themystery.' - Sunday Times (UK) ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of twenty one novels featuring Commissario GuidoBrunetti. She has lived in Venice for thirty years.

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Doctored EvidenceA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

When the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered inher Venetian flat, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared. As therunaway maid's train is leaving Italy for Romania, she is approached by theborder police, runs away, and is killed as she crosses the tracks in front of anoncoming train. She has a considerable sum of money on her and her papersare obviously fake. Case closed. But when the old woman's neighbor returnsfrom a business trip in London, it becomes clear that the maid could not havecommitted the crime. Commissario Guido Brunetti decides - unofficially - totake the case on himself. As Brunetti learns more of the victim's badcharacter, it appears that the crime may not be motivated by greed after all. ________________________________

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

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Death in a Strange CountryA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confrontsa grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. Allthe clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robberyseems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in thevictim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy,Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide aready-made solution to the crime.

Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, Death in a Strange Country isa superb novel in Donna Leon's chilling Venetian mystery series. ________________________________

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

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Blood from a StoneA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

"Commissario Guido Brunetti's fourteenth case may be his best yet." – KirkusReviews (starred review)

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed ina scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are thetourists who had been browsing the fake designer handbags that the manwas selling. The dead man is one of the many African immigrants purveyinggoods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Likeeverybody involved, Commissario Brunetti wonders why anyone would kill anillegal immigrant. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliarVenetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stakewithin the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist furtherinvolvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearththe truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event besmugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far willBrunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community?Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.

"A subtle and sophisticated mystery"– New York Times

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Dressed for DeathA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of escaping the sweltering heatof Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains aredashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera-a body sobadly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. The victim appears to bea transsexual prostitute. Brunetti searches Venice - including the red-lightdistrict - for someone who can identify the corpse, but he is met with a wallof silence. Then he receives aphone call promising tantalizing information,provided he meets with the caller under a bridge outside of town in themiddle of the night. This dangerous rendezvous leads to more senselessmurders, but despite the danger, Brunetti remains determined to uncoverthe truth. Dressed for Death, the third novel in this international best-sellingseries is classic Brunetti. ________________________________

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

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Fatal RemediesDonna Leon_________________________________________________

In the eighth book in Donna Leon's internationally bestselling series,Commissario Guido Brunetti's career comes under threat as his professionaland personal lives unexpectedly intersect.

It all begins with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetiandawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the city, and Brunettiis shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene ishis own wife, Paola. She has taken a stand against a travel agency known fora certain kind of shady tourism. Meanwhile, at work, Brunetti is underpressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to asuspicious accidental death. Does it all leadback to the Mafia? And how arehis family's actions connected to these crimes? ________________________________

Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestsellingCommissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA MacallanSilver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon lived in Venice for thirtyyears and currently lives between Venice and Switzerland.

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Falling in LoveA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon_________________________________________________

Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved CommissarioGuido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroatworld of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli-then asuspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years afterBrunetti cleared her name and saved the life of her female American lover inAcqua Alta, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead inTosca, and Brunetti has tickets to an early performance.

The night he and his wife, Paola, attend, Flavia gives a stunning performanceto a standing ovation. Back in her dressing room, she finds bouquets ofyellow roses-too many roses. Every surface of the room is covered withthem. An anonymous fan has been showering Flavia with these beautiful giftsin London, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and now, Venice, but she no longerfeels flattered. A few nights later, invited by Brunetti to dine at his in-laws'palazzo, Flavia confesses her alarm at theseexcessive displays of adoration.Brunetti promises to look into it. And when a talented young Venetian singerwho has caught Flavia's attention is savagely attacked, Brunetti begins tothink that Flavia's fears are justified in ways neither of them imagined. Hemust enter in the psyche of an obsessive fan before Flavia, or anyone else,comes to harm.

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