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About Face

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been translated into thirty-five languages and have been published around the world. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places , which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things . Klappentext The latest Commissario Brunetti novel, which is sure to be a bestseller in paperback. 'The very first sentences of "About Face" showcase Donna Leon's elegant, effortless style...another great Brunetti outing' "Independent" Zusammenfassung 'The very first sentences of About Face showcase Donna Leon's elegant, effortless style ... another great Brunetti outing . ' The Independent Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller ____________________________________________ At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello is involved? ...

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Authors Donna Leon
Publisher Arrow
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 04.03.2010
 
EAN 9780099533368
ISBN 978-0-09-953336-8
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
Series Commissario Brunetti
Brunetti
Commissario Brunetti
Brunetti
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
Commissario Brunetti / A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

FICTION / Crime

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