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The girl of his dreams a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery

One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leon, Donna
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atlantic Monthly, c2008.
Subjects:	Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Undercover operations > Fiction. Mystery fiction > Italy. Venice (Italy) > Fiction.
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Summary:	One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him.
Physical Description:	276 p. : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780871139801 0871139804
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)