Fatal Remedies

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A new look for the eighth installment in the Commissario Brunetti crime fiction series 'Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives . . . Brunetti is back on track, sadder perhaps, but wiser and wittier than ever' Sunday Times 'A splendid series'Sunday Telegraph A sudden act of vandalism has just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. When Commissario Brunetti arrives at the scene, he discovers that the culprit is no other than his wife Paola. As a crisis erupts in the Brunetti household and a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a recent suspicious death, Brunetti's personal and professional lives clash. But is his own career under threat? And what conspiracy lies behind Paola's crime?

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.

Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives ... Brunetti is ... back on track, sadder perhaps, but wiser and wittier than ever * Sunday Times * A splendid series ... with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can smell it * Sunday Telegraph * One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever * The Washington Post * No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leon's Brunetti * Time * [Brunetti's] humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight * The New York Times Book Review *