A Noble Radiance
By Donna Leon
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Mass Market Paperback, 9780142003190, 304pp.)
Publication Date: August 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (February 2009), Large Print (June 2004), Audio Cassette (August 2001), Compact Disc (August 2001)
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Series
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Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue.
In A Noble Radiance a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.
Donna Leon has lived and taught in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.
"A splendid series with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it." (The Sunday Telegraph)
"An evocative peep into the dark underworld of the beauteous city." (Time Out, London)
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