A Noble Radiance

Name: A Noble Radiance
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Donna Leon
ISBN: 9781501997129

Author: Donna Leon

Series: Commissario Brunetti Mysteries #7

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/15/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, International Crime & Mystery, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

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

About Donna Leon

American author, Donna Leon, has settled nicely into a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy entitled, Brunettixote. The novels feature the fictional character of Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Leon was born in 1942, and eventually lived in Venice, Italy for over 30 years. She was an English literature lecturer for the University of Maryland in Europe (Italy), and worked on a military base in Italy for several years, before she became a full time writer. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and also had a home in a smaller Swiss village.

The novels have been translated from English into several foreign languages, but for some reason the author did not approve them being translated into Italian. German television has shown 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes that they produced for broadcast.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerald on January 01, 2010

As I close this book I reflect on mixed reviews from other readers. Among the disappointed are those who complain of slow pace and a plot which is often virtually static. True, but they bought the wrong book. Donna Leon doesn't aspire to write another Italian Job; she is interested in moral issues,......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox on January 24, 2016

A Noble Radiance, the 7th novel and an interesting addition to Donna Leon’s amazing and thought provoking Guido Brunetti Series. Guido Brunetti, the intelligent and intellectual Venetian Commissario is called in to investigate the findings of a decomposed male body found in a shallow grave by workme......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on September 06, 2021

She's back! Yes, Donna Leon is back in top form in her 7th novel in the Commissario Brunetti series. This time Brunetti s pulled into a case he had nothing to do with when it occurred, two years prior to the books timeline. A body is found in Belluno well over 100 km from Venice. Testing shows it to......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on December 26, 2018

These Donna Leon books featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police have become some of my favorite guilty reading pleasures over the past year. Time to squeeze in one more before the year ends! A Noble Radiance is the seventh in the series and once again it highlights the corruption and......more