Quietly In Their Sleep

Name: Quietly In Their Sleep
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Donna Leon
ISBN: 9781501997136

Author: Donna Leon

Series: Commissario Brunetti Mysteries #6

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/15/2018

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

Synopsis

In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled onto something very real and very sinister-something that places her own life in imminent danger? A beautiful, suspense-filled novel, Quietly in Their Sleep is Donna Leon at the top of her form.

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 February 15, 2016

3,5 stars Commissario Guido Brunetti’s latest “case” in the 6th book in Commissario Brunetti Series by Donna Leon, starts off with a visit to his office by a young woman, who he doesn’t recognize but seems familiar to him, claiming that she suspects that several patients who had died unexpectedly and......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on July 20, 2021

Each and every book by Donna Leon in her Commissario Brunetti explores another aspect of the greed and corruption that has become almost 2nd nature in the Brunetti's world. This time Leon takes a direct aim at the Catholic Church, and even gets the secretive organization Opus Dei into the plot. The b......more

Goodreads review by Brent on January 17, 2011

I was very disappointed in book #6 from the Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon. This appears to be Ms. Leon's two headed attack on religion. I am not Catholic. The focus appears to be on the Catholic Church but I think it goes much deeper then that. All the characters in the book who are likeable:......more

Goodreads review by Emma on April 17, 2022

A book on a mission…Donna Leon meets Dan Brown.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on April 24, 2021

It's just as well my very old Kindle doesn't handle maps very well because the installments in this Brunetti series don't have any. Yet Brunetti walks a lot in his island city, except, of course, when he takes a launch. We travel with him. I enjoy these segments moving through the city even though I......more