Donna Leon: Doctored Evidence
Doctored Evidence
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 02/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099536550
- Bestellnummer: 5071622
- Umfang: 322 Seiten
- Sonstiges: w. map.
- Auflage: Reissued
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 246 g
- Maße: 198 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.2.2009
- Serie: Commissario Brunetti - Band 13
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
Als eine reiche ältere Dame brutal ermordet in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden wird, scheint der Fall klar. Doch die Hauptverdächtige, das rumänische Dienstmädchen, kommt ums Leben und erweist sich als unschuldig. Brunetti schaltet sich - inoffiziell - ein. From Sunday Times bestselling crime author Donna Leon comes the thirteenth instalment in the Venice based Commissario Brunetti series with just as much enthralling mystery and murder as before.Beschreibung
When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers, the maid runs into the path of an oncoming train and is killed. Case closed.But when the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, it becomes clear that the maid could not have been the killer. Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself.
As Brunetti investigates, it becomes clear that the motive for the murder was unlikely to have been greed, rather that it had its roots in the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of the wrong deadly sin altogether...
Rezension
"The virtues of Leon's writing are all on display in ... Doctored Evidence ... [Leon] has a wonderful feeling for the social complexities of Venice, where corruption is as old and deep and treacherous as the canals ... Like all the best detective fiction, Doctored Evidence not only solves a mystery, but also anatomises the setting in which the crime occurred" Daily MailKlappentext
'[Leon] has a wonderful feeling for the social complexities of Venice, where corruption is as old and deep and treacherous as the canals ... Like all the best detective fiction, Doctored Evidence not only solves a mystery, but also anatomises the setting in which the crime occurred' Daily MailWhen a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who dies in a tragic accident while fleeing the city, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers. When the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, confessing to have given the maid the money out of pity, questions begin to arise, and Commissario Brunetti decides to take the case on himself. But what could have been the true motive for the murder in such nebulous circumstances if not greed? Or is Brunetti thinking of the wrong sin altogether?
Biografie
Donna Leon, geb. 1942, verließ mit 23 Jahren New Jersey, um in Perugia und Siena weiterzustudieren. Seit 1965 lebt sie ständig im Ausland, arbeitet als Reiseleiterin in Rom, als Werbetexterin in London, an amerikanischen Schulen in der Schweiz, im Iran, in China und Saudi-Arabien. Seit 1981 lebt und arbeitet sie in Venedig. Donna Leon
Doctored Evidence
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