Transient Desires A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon
Brand: Black Cat
Product Description
In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crime In his many years as a commissario Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city Venice to discover the person responsible. Now in Transient Desires the thirtieth novel in Donna Leons masterful series he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However Brunettis curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident why did they want to avoid association with it As Brunetti and his colleague Claudia Griffoni investigate the incident they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gutwrenching case Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organized. Donna Leons Transient Desires is as powerful as any novel she has written testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth. show more
Condition : New
Author : Donna Leon
Weight : 414.84
Publisher : Black Cat
Language : English
EAN : 9780802158185
ISBN10 : 0802158188
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20230601
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 139.7 X 208.28 X 25.4mm