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Title	:	Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti #1)
Author	:	Donna Leon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	July 27th 2004 by Harper Perennial (first published June 19th 1992)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Detective

Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti #1) Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

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There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor who died painfully from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice.

But as the investigation unfolds, a chilling picture slowly begins to take shape--a detailed portrait of revenge painted with vivid strokes of hatred and shocking depravity. And the dilemma for Guido Brunetti will not be finding a murder suspect, but rather narrowing the choices down to one. . . .

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Original Title:	Death at La Fenice
ISBN:	006074068X (ISBN13: 9780060740689)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Commissario Brunetti #1
Characters:	Commissario Guido Brunetti, Paola Brunetti, Helmut Wellauer
Setting:	Venice(Italy)

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Reading this book reminded me why I can't usually find in genre fiction what satisfies me in a novel. I think this is a pretty good example of genre fiction. It does not flaunt, for example, the deliberately awkward and ugly similes characteristic of noir fiction. I recently stopped reading a detective Chen mystery (A case of Two Cities by Qui Xiaolong) after about 30 pages because from time to time blossomed in my path a simile resembling one of those giant Indonesian flowers that look and

Let me start by saying that I love Venice and all things Venetian. I love reading anything that has to do with Venice. So the fact that this book takes place in Venice gave it at least one redeeming quality. I've heard from more than one person that Donna Leon was a good author, but after reading this book, I have serious doubts about that and I'm not sure she deserves a second chance. She set up a great plot and had intruiging characters, but then did nothing with them. I got halfway through

Started this book during our isolation & requirement to stay at home due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Since this affected Italy terribly I decided to read a book based on Venice. I had previously read two of Donna Leons Commissario Brunetti series #5 Aqua Alta & #17 The Girl Of his Dreams & I found both to be satisfiying reads. So what better way to start April but the first in the Brunetti mysteries.This is not going to be a fast paced or gory story; the pace is slow & methodical

Started this book during our isolation & requirement to stay at home due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Since this affected Italy terribly I decided to read a book based on Venice. I had previously read two of Donna Leons Commissario Brunetti series #5 Aqua Alta & #17 The Girl Of his Dreams & I found both to be satisfiying reads. So what better way to start April but the first in the Brunetti mysteries.This is not going to be a fast paced or gory story; the pace is slow & methodical

I finally, finally read this after legions of readers said Donna Leon was perfect for Louise Penny fans who were all caught up with Inspector Gamache. In this first installment of the Commissario Brunetti mysteries, a renowned opera conductor is found dead in his dressing room, a victim of cyanide poisoning. It's significant to the story that this is a particularly painful way to die. As the investigation unfolds, it's clear the man had a dark past and many enemies, and that the perpetrator

I love Italy and I've tried reading a few of the Italian masters of crime fiction. I decided to read this because it is on a BBC Book Club list. I was pretty disappointed. Some people might like Donna Leon and I'm sure she has an army of fans but I found the prose stilted and dull, the plot cadaverous and the book stuffed with cliches and dull stereotypes about Italian life and culture. The prose style read as if it had been badly translated from the Italian.....it turns out the author is an

Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon is a 2012 Grove Press publication. (Originally published in 1992)Slightly dated, but oh the Venetian scenery!!This is the first book in the long running Commissario Brunetti series. Ive been curious about Donna Leon for ages but have never gotten around to sampling any of her work. This book is available in the Kindle Unlimited program, at the moment, giving me a great excuse to finally see for myself why this series has endured. When a world- renowned musical