'This series of one of the adornments of current detective fiction....a gem.' - GERALD KAUFMAN News that a transvestite prostitute has been found with his head and face beaten in creates a sensation in the Venice Questura. But it's bad news for Commissario Guido Brunetti, who is put in charge of the murder investigation - he was due to go on holiday. Brunetti searches the city for someone who can identify the dead man, but nobody will admit to knowing him. Then a male prostitute promises to give the Commissario some tantalising information - and soon Brunetti must confront another appalling and apparently senseless death...
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Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon was born in New Jersey and has lived in Venice for thirty years.
This is your basic police procedural set in Venice. It features a likeable, methodical detective, Guido Brunetti, who sacrifices his vacation in the mountains to track down a scam and the murderer of a banker disguised as a transvestite. Anna Fields reads the story in a hard-edged, gravelly voice, which fits the plot even if it doesn't please the ear. Donna Leon writes like a female Ed McBain, only the detectives cruise canals and not the mean streets of New York. This is an often slow-paced story, but the plot is plausible and well-conceived. Most listeners will stay with it. D.L.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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