Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti and his wife, Paola, are on their way to a dinner party when Brunetti's eye is caught by a couple ahead of them: a woman in an impossibly expensive fur coat on the arm of a much older man. He is intrigued when they turn out to be fellow dinner...
"Leon . . . is so generous with the humanizing details that make this series special. There are long walks in Brunetti's warm company and lively talks with his clever wife and even more engaging father-in-law, who can see the appetites of a modern consumer reflected in a 17th-century...
'The very first sentences of About Face showcase Donna Leon's elegant, effortless style ... another great Brunetti outing.' The Independent
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From the acclaimed author of The Waters of Eternal Youth , the eighteenth enthralling installment of "one of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever" ( The Washington Post ) The Publication of each Commissario Brunetti mystery is an event antici-pated by Donna Leon's...