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The Italian detective Commissario Brunetti takes on another intriguing, but personal case in Donna Leon's Acqua Alta, an atmospheric murder mystery filled with the sights and sounds of Venice.

Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend and art historian, Brett Lynch, has suffered a savage beating.

The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: 'Don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato.'

Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a man's body is found . . .

The fifth novel in the Commissario Brunetti Venetian crime series, which also includes The Anonymous Venetian and So Shall You Reap.

'A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it' – Sunday Telegraph



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A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it * Sunday Telegraph *
Music and art mingle delightfully with murder and mayhem in the course of this very engaging story. * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *

Acqua Alta

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 5 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9781447201656
      978-1447201656
      ISBN-10 1447201655
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers Books by Donna Leon

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Italian detective Commissario Brunetti takes on another intriguing, but personal case in Donna Leon's Acqua Alta, an atmospheric murder mystery filled with the sights and sounds of Venice.

      Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend and art historian, Brett Lynch, has suffered a savage beating.

      The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: 'Don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato.'

      Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a man's body is found . . .

      The fifth novel in the Commissario Brunetti Venetian crime series, which also includes The Anonymous Venetian and So Shall You Reap.

      'A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it' – Sunday Telegraph



      Trade Review
      A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it * Sunday Telegraph *
      Music and art mingle delightfully with murder and mayhem in the course of this very engaging story. * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *

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