Kuolema oopperassa (Komissario Brunetti, #1)
ISBN:
9511153927
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Otava
Pages no: 270
Edition language: English
Category:
Travel,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Music,
Murder Mystery,
Italian Literature
Series: Commissario Brunetti 6 (#1)
…it turns out I've read this book before. I figured that out from a single detail—the only detail I remembered because it was so Italian—and continued listening to the book like it was my first time reading it. Unmemorable as it was, it was also a decent book. Nothing spectacular but neither anyth...
63. DEATH AT LA FENICE, BY DONNA LEON (Book 1 of Commissario Brunetti)Recommended by the delightful nous-contre-eux (Mimi). And it was a delightful read.Synopsis: A world-famous conductor is found dead in his dressing-room in the middle of a performance in the biggest opera house in Venice. Guido B...
For day 5's topic two cozy mystery series came to my mind at once: The Bruno, Chief of Police Novels by Martin Walker (set in the Perigord in France) and the Commisario Brunetti novels by Donna Leon (set in Venice, Italy). In both series food plays a major role and you just wish you could sit at the...
Mild mannered detective finds out who done it. If you're looking for gun fights and people flying over cars with the wind whipping through their hair, that not here. Which is a nice change of pace and an actual preference for me. Love the detective's marriage. I'm in a library bookclub that read...
“A policeman, married to a thief, with a computer monster and an anarchist for children”Whenever I start a new book by a female author, I start suffering from the PD James-Syndrome, which simplified, means that whether this book will turn out to be another mediocre fiction in the garb of Crime Writi...
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