Doctored Evidence - Brunetti: Volume 9

Informationen zum Autor Donna Leon is author of the much-loved, best-selling series of novels featuring Commissario Brunetti and one of The Times ' 50 Greatest Crime Writers. Widely considered one of the best detective series ever, with admirers including Ursula K. Le Guin and Val McDermid, the Brunetti Mysteries have won numerous awards around the world and been translated into thirty-five languages. Klappentext ' [Leon] has a wonderful feeling for the social complexities of Venice, where corruption is as old and deep and treacherous as the canals ... Like all the best detective fiction, Doctored Evidence not only solves a mystery, but also anatomises the setting in which the crime occurred' Daily Mail When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who dies in a tragic accident while fleeing the city, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers. When the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, confessing to have given the maid the money out of pity, questions begin to arise, and Commissario Brunetti decides to take the case on himself. But what could have been the true motive for the murder in such nebulous circumstances if not greed? Or is Brunetti thinking of the wrong sin altogether? Zusammenfassung When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Leon, Leon Donna
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.02.2009
• EAN: 9780099536550
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953655-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Arrow Books; Commissario Brunetti; Brunetti; Commissario Brunetti; Brunetti; A Commissario Brunetti Mystery; Commissario Brunetti / A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Venice, Thriller / suspense fiction, Corruption in politics, government and society