The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon
The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon
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The Girl of His Dreams
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Author: Donna Leon

Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2025

Synopsis

In the seventeenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Brunetti investigates two groups—a Christian sect, and the gypsies—and tries to understand the tragic death of a young girl.

When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it’s possible the priest is merely wary of the competition. Nevertheless, Brunetti and his wife, Paola, decide to go undercover. But when a girl’s body is found floating in a canal, Brunetti must put everything aside to investigate the secretive world of her people, the gypsies, who exist on the fringes of Italian society. The Girl of His Dreams is classic Donna Leon.

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 Monica on April 29, 2009

I love the Brunetti books and greedily read this in one sitting, but unfortunately I was disappointed. The first part of the story consisted of a lengthy soapbox criticism of the Catholic Church, and while I actually agree with that criticism, I heard in it too much of the author's voice (rather tha......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox on October 26, 2016

The Girl of His Dreams, the 17th novel in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti Series opens with Brunetti attending his mother's funeral, where he's approached by a priest, a friend of Brunetti's brother, asking him to investigate a new age minister who may be swindling Venetian old parishioners. There......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on July 01, 2021

I do so love Brunetti - how can I be giving most of the books in the series only 3-stars? Oh, yeah, it's because I decided top rating for mysteries is 4-stars unless the book is truly exceptional. This series may be worth more than the sum of its parts. I have never been to Venice and I do not believ......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on July 06, 2018

I didn't enjoy the book for the following reasons. 1) There's no closure. We know that it might be one of two people, but we don't know who. There is a price that is paid, but we don't know whether the people that paid it are also victims or the perpetrator (there is clearly one bad guy, we just don......more

Goodreads review by Blair on February 09, 2015

In each of her books featuring Venetian detective Guido Brunetti, Leon tackles a current and relevant issue, moral, religious, or political, in the context of the case before him. Always in her books, Brunetti, a highly intelligent, ethical, honest policeman is besieged by forces beyond his control......more

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