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A noble radiance

An unassuming uninhabited farmhouse in the Italian countryside delivers up its gruesome secret when its overgrown grounds are cleared for the first time in decades. What is left of the decomposing body is of little help to the urgently summoned Brunetti ... until a distinctively valuable signet ring...

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Main Author: Leon, Donna (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: NY: Penguin, 1998.
Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ; 7.
Subjects:
Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Fiction.
Police > Italy > Venice > Fiction.
Kidnapping victims > Fiction.
Venice (Italy) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary: An unassuming uninhabited farmhouse in the Italian countryside delivers up its gruesome secret when its overgrown grounds are cleared for the first time in decades. What is left of the decomposing body is of little help to the urgently summoned Brunetti ... until a distinctively valuable signet ring, found nearby, links the mangled remains to a kidnapped scion of Venetian aristocracy.
Physical Description: 277 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0142003190
9780142003190
Author Notes: Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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