Ebook {Epub PDF} About Face by Donna Leon

 · by Donna Leon ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, The stench of corruption that always hangs over Venice grows disconcertingly literal when Commissario Guido Brunetti (The Girl of His Dreams, , etc.) gets a case involving the illegal disposal of toxic waste. The morning after he spends a night dining with his wife Paola’s titled parents and their guests—including most notably La Super Author: Tom Leitch. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. Donna Leon's eighteenth book, About Face, is ostensibly a mystery about the accumulation (and storage and transport) of trash in Venice, Italy. It also concerns /5(K).

Venice blanketed by snow, a mysterious and hideous "facelift," a murdered Carabiniere, wealthy Italians investing in China, the deadly involvement of the Neapolitan mafia--the Camorra--in the transport of toxic garbage: all these things merge in interesting and unexpected ways in Donna Leon's first-rate and highly recommended new addition to her Commisssario Brunetti series. Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family. About Face: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery. by Donna Leon. Donna Leon, an American who is a resident of Venice, Italy, is. the author of a critically acclaimed mystery series with Guido. Brunetti, a Venetian police commissioner who is still principled. enough to bemoan the fact that those who commit crimes are seldom.

by Donna Leon ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, The stench of corruption that always hangs over Venice grows disconcertingly literal when Commissario Guido Brunetti (The Girl of His Dreams, , etc.) gets a case involving the illegal disposal of toxic waste. The morning after he spends a night dining with his wife Paola’s titled parents and their guests—including most notably La Super Liftata, Franca Marinello, the much younger wife of a well-connected businessman who’s trying to. The Publication of each Commissario Brunetti mystery is an event antici­pated by Donna Leon's many readers. In About Face, she returns with a dazzling mystery that puts Brunetti's own family at risk. Soon after meeting Franca Marinello, the wife of a wealthy Venetian businessman, Brunetti comes across her name in his investigation of a trucking company owner found murdered in his offices. As detective work goes, it’s a tiny masterpiece of analysis.” ―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review. “ About Face continues Donna Leon’s deeply satisfying series about Venetian cop Guido Brunetti Brunetti is canny, reflective and adept at maneuvering through tricky situations.