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About Face
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  • Published: 2 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407006123
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 15 min
  • Narrator: Andrew Sachs
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About Face

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1 June 2010
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20 Oct 2011
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2 Apr 2009
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4 Mar 2010
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From Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Leon comes the eighteenth Brunetti mystery in the series where our police Commissario finds himself chasing the Venetian mafia.

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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.

A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour.

Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?
  • Published: 2 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9781407006123
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 15 min
  • Narrator: Andrew Sachs
Categories:

About the author

Donna Leon

Donna Leon is author of the much-loved, best-selling series of novels featuring Commissario Brunetti and one of The Times' 50 Greatest Crime Writers. Widely considered one of the best detective series ever, with admirers including Ursula K. Le Guin and Val McDermid, the Brunetti Mysteries have won numerous awards around the world and been translated into thirty-five languages.

portrait photo of Donna Leon

Also by Donna Leon

Wandering Through Life
Transient Desires
The Temptation of Forgiveness
Unto Us a Son Is Given
Death at La Fenice
So Shall You Reap
Trace Elements
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Praise for About Face

[A] brilliant series

Seven, Sunday Telegraph

Super sleuth Brunetti again patrols Venice's dark canal ways in this Italian crimefest. Once again, Brunetti proves he's more than a match for the local mob

Mirror

The very first sentences of About Face showcase Donna Leon's elegant, effortless style ... another great Brunetti outing ... The details of home-cooked meals and family arguments, alongside a never-ending flow of crime, add depth to Leon's stories and are what makes her characters so believable and, in turn, her books so readable

The Independent

A thoroughly enjoyable and atmospheric read

Waterstones Books Quarterly

The Brunetti series is dependably enjoyable ... There are fine scenes of sustained dialogue, notably an exchange between Brunetti and the Count, his father-in-law, over a pair of portraits, that deserves to be called Jamesian

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