Acqua Alta - Paperback

by Donna Leon (Author)

"Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew."--The Sunday Times (UK)

In "every fan's first-pick Brunetti novel" (The New Yorker), the brutal beating of a renowned art historian draws the Venetian detective into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta--the torrential winter rains

As Venice braces for the onslaught of a stormy tempest and rising waters from exceptionally high tides, Commissario Guido Brunetti is pulled from his warm bed to find that an old friend, Dotoressa Brett Lynch, has been savagely beaten in the palazzo home she shares with Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. Brunetti suspects that this is not a simple crime, and then, as the flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered.

"Music and art mingle delightfully with murder and mayhem in the course of this very engaging story."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Author Biography

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. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.