The American author of this refreshingly different and low-key thriller lives in Venice where the story is set. Commissario Brunetti, delightfully cynical and disrespectful of his superior, is called in to solve the murder of a museum director. The cast includes an opera singer, an antique dealer and an art collector . . . and the time is the season of high tides when the city is under water. Lots of local atmosphere and background details.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 5 October 2000 ) |
