The Girl of His Dreams
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407005607
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Girl of His Dreams

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The seventeenth instalment in the bestselling crime series by Silver Dagger winner Donna Leon sees Commissario Brunetti investigate the death of a young girl whose body is found in the Venice canals.

'In The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon is writing at her fluent best.' The Independent

2008 Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Bestseller
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One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.

But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty.

From the canals and palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407005607
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Donna Leon

Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world.

Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.

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Praise for The Girl of His Dreams

The Girl of his Dreams is an artful examination of family ties as well as a clear-eyed survey of the pros and cons of political correctness

Evening Standard

Another intriguing episode in this fine series

Sunday Telegraph

Donna Leon has a talent for scene-setting and plot-twisting which has hooked in millions of fans, and if you've never sampled their wares, there couldn't be a better place to start than this

Sunday Telegraph

Gorgeously written . . . the seventeenth book in this superlative series restates Leon's themes with more intensity than usual

Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

In The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon is writing at her fluent best

The Independent

The seventeenth title in an excellent, unflagging series...The Girl of His Dreams marks an evolution, even a quiet revolution, in Leon's storytelling

TLS

Written in a powerful, economical style...Leon's 17th novel is one of her darkest and most reflective

Guardian