Death in a Strange Country, Donna Leon
Death in a Strange Country, Donna Leon
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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

Synopsis

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime. Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, Death in a Strange Country is a superb novel in Donna Leon's chilling Venetian mystery series.

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 Alex is The Romance Fox on January 16, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on September 22, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Blaine on June 23, 2020

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

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