About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Series, Book #18)
by Leon, Donna
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About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Series, Book #18) by Donna Leon
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 guests, and even more so when he meets the woman Franca Marinello, La Superliftata, whom he's heard of but never met, and who entrances Brunetti with her love of Virgil and Cicero. But when she visits him later at the Questura and aska a favor, her request seems to land near his investigation into a suspicious death and the illegal hauling of garbage. In Italy, the environment has reached a crisis and Brunetti delves into a shadowy, toxic world, he comes face to face with violence and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before. An exceptional installment in this masterful series, About Face is Donna Leon at her finest.
Grove Press, Softcover, 2009
Synopsis
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 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. Though charmed by Franca's love of Virgil and Cicero, he must now unravel her connection to the Carabinieri's prime suspect. As Brunetti delves into the murder, he comes face to face with violence and corruption as dangerous as he's ever seen. About Face is Donna Leon at her finest.
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- Title
- About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Series, Book #18)
- Author
- Leon, Donna
- Book Condition
- New
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- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802128068
- ISBN 13
- 9780802128065
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Date Published
- 2009
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- Donna Leon; Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;