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Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon has brought us Venice in all its aspects. Now Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals, the issue...

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Main Author: Leon, Donna
Other Authors: Colacci, David
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: North Kingstown : BBC Audiobooks America, 2009.
Series:Leon, Donna. Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ; bk. 18.
Subjects:
Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > Italy > Venice > Fiction.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Corrupt practices > Fiction.
Venice (Italy) > Fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Summary:Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon has brought us Venice in all its aspects. Now Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals, the issue is significant. For Brunetti, it becomes so when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. (Bestseller).
Item Description:Downloadable audio file.
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Unabridged.
Duration: 9:41:00.
Playing Time:09:41:00
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 139181 KB; MP3 file size: 272831 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780792762591
0792762592
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.

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