

A Sea of Troubles
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/01/2011
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/01/2011
American author, Donna Leon, has settled nicely into a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy entitled, Brunettixote. The novels feature the fictional character of Commissario Guido Brunetti.
Leon was born in 1942, and eventually lived in Venice, Italy for over 30 years. She was an English literature lecturer for the University of Maryland in Europe (Italy), and worked on a military base in Italy for several years, before she became a full time writer. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and also had a home in a smaller Swiss village.
The novels have been translated from English into several foreign languages, but for some reason the author did not approve them being translated into Italian. German television has shown 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes that they produced for broadcast.
A Sea of Troubles, the 10th Commissario Brunetti mystery featuring Venetian police detective, Guido Brunetti starts with the bodies of two fishermen found in a burnt fishing boat in one of the outer islands on the Venice lagoon. The small fishing community offers to share any information about the m......more
The 10th book of this series and it is one that is truly a slow build, but my word once this gets going I could not put it down. As with all the books of this series, Donna Leon, weaves her plot and characters around a social/society issue in Venice and this time we are dealing with fishing. Yes, fi......more
Charles van Buren TOP 1000 REVIEWER 2.0 out of 5 stars Dull Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase Review of Kindle edition Publication date: August 25, 2009 Publisher: Grove Press Language: English ASIN: B0097D79G4 Commissario Brunetti is a man without faith or religion in the service of a corrupt governme......more
My appetite is huge for Donna Leon's detailed knowledge of Venice, the city and its people, and her cynical take on corrupt institutions in this legendary place. I have great affection for detective Guido Brunetti; his family (notably his wife, Paola, the professor of English literature, a specialis......more
Not as good as some of her others. Not much of a plot, and a strange sub-plot in which Brunetti's wife is jealous of Signorina Elettra for no apparent reason. I also didn't really like the storyline that took Elettra away from her area of strength and reduced her to someone who needed to be protecte......more
“The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.” Wall Street Journal, praise for the series
“In this stunning novel…featuring dogged, intuitive Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti…combines an engrossing, complex plot with an indictment of the corruption endemic to Italian society...dark, cynical tale of widespread secrecy, violence, and corruption.” Publishers Weekly (starred review), praise for Blood from a Stone
“The evocative Venetian setting and the warmth and humanity of the Brunetti family add considerable pleasure to this nuanced, intelligent mystery…Highly recommended.” Library Journal (starred review), praise for Blood from a Stone
“The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon’s long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his roll as an everyman…Not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life.” Booklist (starred review), praise for the series