Donna Leon
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This Author Donna Leon - has books at our site "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." |