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Donna Leon
Earthly Remains
Band 25
Commissario Brunetti’s 26th Case
Band 25
Published by Diogenes as Stille Wasser
Original Title: Earthly Remains

Donna Leon’s public is getting larger and larger and Brunetti’s focus as well: While leaving the alleys of Venice behind, Brunetti discovers a big crime in the laguna.

A cosy and yet very uncosy novel.

During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break, needs to get away from the stifling problems of his work.

When Brunetti is granted leave from the Questura, his wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading. But when a new friend goes missing, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to try to better understand the man and to piece together the puzzle of his life.

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Crime Fiction, Contemporary Literature
352 pages
2017

978-3-257-06988-4
Donna
Leon

Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. The Brunetti novels brought her to world-wide fame. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.

Photo: © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag
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Photo of Donna Leon, © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag

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Marilyn Stasio
New York Times Book Review

»The Waters of Eternal Youth . . . [is] a bittersweet story that makes us appreciate Brunetti’s philosophical take on the indignities, insanities, and cruelties of life.«

 

Joe Hartlaub
www.bookreporter.com

»The Waters of Eternal Youth has the most satisfying ending of any book I’ve read in recent memory.«

Kirkus Reviews, New York

»[. . .] the pleasures of spending time with Brunetti and the gang have never been greater.«

Kirkus Reviews, New York

»A vacation for your own soul.«

Publishers Weekly, New York

»Bestseller Donna Leon’s enticing 26th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ... Along the way to the poignant ending, Brunetti develops insights into nature and humankind’s failure to protect it, as well as the nature of guilt and its role in a man’s life.«

Washington Post

»The most obvious appeal of Donna Leon's novels about Commissario Guido Brunetti is that they are so supremely civilized... Leon's novels are always a pleasure.«

Marilyn Stasio
The New York Times

»When she's writing about her beloved Venice, Donna Leon can do no wrong. And Earthly Remains, her new mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, is one of her best.«

Lloyd Sachs
Chicago Tribune

»He is, through thick and thin, great company — and a pretty good crime solver as well.«

Movie Adaptations

2019
Stille Wasser, Sigi Rothemund