Friends at the top: Donna Leon

American Donnu Leon is called “one of the most intriguing puzzles of Venice.” For twenty years now, readers of the whole world have enthusiastically monitor the adventures of the hero of her “Venetian detectives” – police commissar Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon’s novels are translated in more than a dozen languages, a popular television series has been removed along them. Certificate of international recognition of the writer are two prestigious awards: the “Silver Dagger” of the British Association of Author -Detective Authorities and the Japanese Prize “Santori”.
To Guido Brunetti is an official of the cadastral department and explains that the commissioner’s apartment, built on the building of the 15th century, will be demolished if the documents of half-century ago are not found. A few months later, the same Franco Russia calls the commissar with the intention of telling him something secret, but the connection is interrupted, and the next day the official is found under the construction forests of the restored building with heavy injuries, from which he dies. Brunetti is taken to investigate a strange death, one …

Author
Leon Donna
Translator
Evdokimova Nadezhda Veniaminovna
Publisher
Foreigner, 2013
Series
World detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose