Transient Desires
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  • Published: 28 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781787467842
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

Transient Desires

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28 Sep 2021
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4 Mar 2021
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4 Mar 2021
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A new look for the landmark thirtieth instalment of the global bestselling Commissario Brunetti series

Chosen as Star Pick in the Sunday Times Crime Club
Chosen as a 'Best New Crime Novel' in the Sunday Times

'The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement' The Times
'Leon's books are a joy' Guardian
When two young American women are badly injured in a boating accident, Commissario Brunetti's eye turns to the two young Italians they were with, who abandoned them in the hospital. When one of the young men is found to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna, Brunetti has to enlist the help of Italian institutions to get to the bottom of the mystery. But can Brunetti trust unfamiliar colleagues? Could there be another motive behind this horrible crime?

'She is a truly fine novelist, period, and should be acclaimed as such'TLS
  • Published: 28 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781787467842
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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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 Transient Desires

The climax is nothing less than a trip - across the laguna - into the heart of darkness . . . Leon's special skill is to splice glimpses of la dolce vita with acute analysis of moral and ethical dilemmas

The Times

It's colourful and beautifully written

Peterborough Telegraph

Needless to say, by venturing outside the comfort zone of his own prejudices, this deeply simpatico detective learns a lot about his city, his countrymen and himself. And so do we

The New York Times Book Review

Make way for the thirtieth novel in Leon's beloved, bestselling series about Commissario Guido Brunetti

Crimereads

Leon's devoted audience may be shocked to realize that this latest Guido Brunetti novel is the thirtieth in the series, which only goes to show that sometimes abiding relationships never lose the shock of the new . . . Leon's beloved series shows no signs of aging

Booklist

There are now more than 30 novels in Donna Leon's venetian series but amazingly they never feel formulaic and they get better and better

The Tablet

She is a truly fine novelist, period, and should be acclaimed as such

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