Through a Glass Darkly
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  • Published: 12 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448124459
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 35 min
  • Narrator: David Colacci
  • RRP: $19.99

Through a Glass Darkly

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24 Jan 2023
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1 Jun 2010
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12 Apr 2012
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The wonderful new Commissario Brunetti mystery, from the Silver Dagger winner Donna Leon, an author who continues to go from strength to strength.

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter shares her fear with Brunetti that he will actually hurt her husband.

But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the glass foundries, nor he whose body is found lying in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees C. night and day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante and Brunetti must enter an inferno to discover who is burning the land and fouling the waters of Venice's lagoon. A man is dead - but will politics and expedience prevent the killer from striking again?
  • Published: 12 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448124459
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 35 min
  • Narrator: David Colacci
  • RRP: $19.99
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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 Through a Glass Darkly

'Donna Leon's very successful Commissario Brunetti novels, set in Venice.... It would be simply perverse not to acknowledge the skill with which Leon has assembled these familiar elements... The reader comes to look forward to Paola's elegant Venetian lunches as much as Brunetti does...Comfort reading of the highest order.' TLS

'The fabulous Donna Leon' Antonia Fraser in the Spectator

'[Leon's] passion for all things Venetian - churches, palaces, statues and especially the food - comes over loud and clear whenever Brunetti steps from his apartment into the street... No one writes about the grey areas of life better.' Guardian

'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The Times

'The thoughtful and charming [Brunetti] is on top form... His nicely balanced world...is cumulatively engrossing. In this domestic detail, Leon roots the power of the ordinary, moral individual.' Sunday Times