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Donna Leon

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Donna Leon
Donna Leon

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Death at La Fenice
Death in a Strange Country
Acqua Alta
The Temptation of Forgiveness
The Anonymous Venetian
A Venetian Reckoning
The Death of Faith
A Noble Radiance
Fatal Remedies
Friends in High Places
A Sea of Troubles
Willful Behavior
Uniform Justice
Doctored Evidence
Blood From A Stone
Through A Glass, Darkly
Suffer the Little Children
Earthly Remains
A Question of Belief
Drawing Conclusions
The Girl of His Dreams
About Face
Beastly Things
By It's Cover
The Golden Egg
Falling In Love
The Waters of Eternal Youth
Trace Elements
Unto Us a Son Is Given
Give Unto Others

"About 20 years ago, I was in the dressing room with a friend of mine, who was then conducting at La Fenice, and his wife, both Sicilian.  We started to talk about another conductor, and there followed an escalation. We soon found ourselves discussing his murder, there in the dressing room. I thought it might be an interesting subject for a crime novel, something I'd never thought of writing, and decided to try to write a book.About 20 years ago, I was in the dressing room with a friend of mine, who was then conducting at La Fenice, and his wife, both Sicilian.  We started to talk about another conductor, and there followed an escalation. We soon found ourselves discussing his murder, there in the dressing room. I thought it might be an interesting subject for a crime novel, something I'd never thought of writing, and decided to try to write a book.He's (Brunetti) a commissario of police and has been a policeman for some time. He's married to a university professor – happily, it seems – has two teenaged children, and is a cultured man who reads and reflects upon Greek and Roman history. He has a sense of irony, is seldom judgmental, and – luckily – is connected to many strata of society in the city."

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

Jane Austen, Pride and Predjudice

Jane Austen, Pride and Predjudice

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons

George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons

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