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Donna Leon | Through a Glass Darkly | English Title: Through a Glass, Darkly<br>Novel, 352 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
352 Pages
Published in June 2007

ISBN 978-3-257-06573-2

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Donna Leon
Through a Glass Darkly

Published by Diogenes as Wie durch ein dunkles Glas
English Title: Through a Glass, Darkly

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello take a break from the Questura to come to the rescue of Vianello’s friend Marco, who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon. They suceed in securing Marco’s release uncharged, only to be faced by the fury of his father-in-law, owner of a glass factory on the island of Murano. The old man is seething with rage at his son-in-law, and his daughter shares with Brunetti her fear that he will actually harm her husband. But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the glass foundries, nor his body that is found dead in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees, night and day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante, and Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is burning the island and fouling the waters of the laguna. A man is dead – but will politics and expedience protect the killer from the law?

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»Donna Leon has a wonderful feel fot the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city.«The Times

»Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart. ... One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.«The Washington Post

»Leon's gentle pace allows conversation and atmosphere to develop so full and founded that you can taste the coffee and smell the flowers... You'll want to catch the first plane over there.«The Washington Post

»Every character, every line of dialogue, every descriptive passage rings true in a whodunit that's also travel essay, political commentary and existential monologue.«Publishers Weekly

»Operatic brilliance... Donna Leon appears to have the knack of keeping her Venice-set Brunetti books as fresh as paint. ›Through a Glass, Darkly‹, like all her work, has the exuberance of a Puccini opera.«The Independent

»Spring comes to Venice in Donna Leon’s 15th procedural mystery, promising renewed life to a city that has always been more in love with death. By adopting this mixed message as the theme of her story, Leon once again shows her sensitivity to the eternal tug that defines the Venetian character.« New York Times

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