The Jewels of Paradise

From the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon's first stand-alone novel.

Informationen zum Autor Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist! celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland! Saudi Arabia! Iran and China! where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places! which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction! Fatal Remedies! Doctored Evidence! A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things. Klappentext Caterina Pellegrini has been hired to find the heir to an alleged treasure devised by a once famous composer. She can only solve the mystery by reading through the wealth of papers he left behind! but in doing so! she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque time. THE JEWELS OF PARADISE is a gripping tale of intrigue! music! history and greed.

Auteur

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher . Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through a Glass, Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, The Girl of His Dreams and, most recently, Beastly Things.

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Caterina Pellegrini has been hired to find the heir to an alleged treasure devised by a once famous composer. She can only solve the mystery by reading through the wealth of papers he left behind, but in doing so, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque time. THE JEWELS OF PARADISE is a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed.

Résumé
" Jewels of Paradise demonstrates the author's deep understanding of Venice, and is an entertaining work that questions the changing values of life over the ages. Like life, it makes you wait to the end to understand the plot." Selected by Lord Browne (former Chief Executive of BP) as his summer read in the Financial Times