Obsession and Death in Donna Leon’s Venice

Donna Leon’s Falling in Love: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery is the latest in a well-loved series that was launched in 1992. Reading these novels is like visiting old friends in their comfortable home and sharing excellent wine, wonderful food and good conversation into the wee hours of the night.

The crime is rarely the point. In fact, in more than one of the novels, the crime is solved but no one is ever sent to jail because of political or other