

Death in a Strange Country
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/13/2018
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/13/2018
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.
3,5 stars "Death in a Strange Country, is the second book in Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti Series. When the body of Sgt. Michael Foster, a public health inspector at the American base in Vicenza, is pulled up from a canal in Venice, it looks like a mugging gone wrong. But Brunetti is convinced that ther......more
When a death in Venice is no longer the subject of a literary work, but of a murder investigation, Commissario Brunetti's problems begin to mount. The unidentified corpse fished from the canal is not Italian. Bad. The deceased turns out to have been an American. Worse! The American was a member of t......more
Book 2 and I am loving this series set in Venice. Very good plot and characters you quickly get to know and enjoy. Here we have a murder of a US Armed Forces soldier in Venice, and who is stationed in Vincenza which is over an hour away. Brunetti is called upon to investigate this crime and along th......more