Death and Judgment - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061095230 ISBN 13: 9780061095238

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

At first glance, the murders of Italy's prominent businessmen appears unrelated, until detective Vice-Commissario Guido Brunetti uncovers an international web of exploitation by Venice's most influential citizens and an outsider's insatiable list for retribution. Reprint.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In her fourth and grittiest installment of the acclaimed series featuring Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon submerges the astute detective in Venice's seedy underworld to crack a deadly prostitution ring run by the cream of Venice society.

About the Author:

A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. It was after a period in Saudi Arabia, which she found ‘damaging physically and spiritually’ that Donna decided to move to Venice, where she has now lived for over twenty years.

Her debut as a crime fiction writer began as a joke: talking in a dressing room in Venice’s opera-house La Fenice after a performance, Donna and a singer friend were vilifying a particular German conductor. From the thought ‘why don’t we kill him?’ and discussion of when, where and how, the idea for Death at La Fenice took shape, and was completed over the next four months.

Donna Leon is the crime reviewer for the London Sunday Times and is an opera expert. She has written the libretto for a comic opera, entitled Dona Gallina. Set in a chicken coop, and making use of existing baroque music, Donna Gallina was premiered in Innsbruck. Brigitte Fassbaender, one of the great mezzo-sopranos of our time, and now head of the Landestheater in Innsbruck, agreed to come out of retirement both to direct the opera and to play the part of the witch Azuneris (whose name combines the names of the two great Verdi villainesses Azucena and Amneris).

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0061095230
• ISBN 13: 9780061095238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294