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The waters of eternal youth

Hired to investigate a suspicious near-drowning that left a girl permanently brain damaged years earlier, Brunetti struggles to determine if a crime was actually committed, in a case set against a backdrop of dynamic transitions in contemporary Venice.

Main Author: Leon, Donna (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2016]
Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ; 25.
Subjects:
Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
People with disabilities > Fiction.
Police > Italy > Venice > Fiction.
Venice (Italy) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Italy.
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Summary: Hired to investigate a suspicious near-drowning that left a girl permanently brain damaged years earlier, Brunetti struggles to determine if a crime was actually committed, in a case set against a backdrop of dynamic transitions in contemporary Venice.
Item Description: "First published in Great Britain in 2016 by William Heinemann"--Title page verso.
Map on lining papers.
Physical Description: 292 pages : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780802124807 (hardcover)
0802124801 (hardcover)
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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