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Donna Leon | Quietly in Their Sleep | English Title: Quietly in their Sleep<br>Novel, 352 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
352 Pages
Published in June 1998

ISBN 978-3-257-06168-0

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Donna Leon
Quietly in Their Sleep

Published by Diogenes as Sanft entschlafen
English Title: Quietly in their Sleep

Commissario Brunetti does not have much to do when his boss is on a holiday, and Venice is just waking up from its winter sleep. But then the machinations of the church begin to cast their shadow over his professional and private life. Suor Immacolata, the beautiful, self-sacrificing Sicilian nun who looked after his mother has left her religious order with a terrible suspicion after the unexpected deaths of five patients. Brunetti makes enquries in the churches and hospitals, looks for the dead people's heirs, and soon finds himself in a labyrinth of religous faith and hypocrisy. He encounters a colourful motley of people, but he cannot find a convincing suspect. Fortunately, Brunetti's network of informers and his wealth of ideas are almost as effective as the influence of the church...

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»Sensitive, incredibly colourful social portraits, close-ups of a splintered, encrusted society. But finally it is probably Guido Brunetti who makes the novels so successful. The reader follows him with pleasure through the narrow, winding streets of Venice.«Der Spiegel

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