The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series) - Hardcover

Leon, Donna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410408744 ISBN 13: 9781410408747

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Leon, Donna

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Review:

Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: Reading The Girl of His Dreams leaves you no choice but to reconsider what makes a mystery novel so good. Certainly there's no denying the appeal of a hard-boiled crime story, where more often than not a brilliant yet battered P.I. drives you white-knuckled to the edge of your seat, but Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti--at once exactingly inquisitive and disarmingly sensitive--bucks that genre convention entirely. Here, in Leon's seventeenth Brunetti mystery, is a man who investigates the tragic drowning of a young Gypsy girl relentlessly, yet--in his thoughtful meanderings through the streets and cafes of Venice--also struggles to understand the human warps and weaknesses that make his beloved city so vulnerable. In the end, it's this pure love and curiosity for life (and, I admit, his lusty appreciation of daily luxuries like prosecco, good coffee, or a burst of sunshine) that make Brunetti such a seductive hero--so much so that you're willing to follow him wherever he goes. --Anne Bartholomew

From the Publisher:

Narrator Information: David Colacci has directed and performed in prominent theaters nationwide for the past thirty years. His credits include roles from Shakespeare to Albee. As a narrator, he has recorded authors ranging from Jules Verne to John Irving to Michael Chabon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1410408744
• ISBN 13: 9781410408747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 421