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Donna Leon tells DAVID ROBINSON why her bestselling books - which she doesn't allow to go on sale in Italy - are only part of her story
THERE REALLY ISN'T THAT MUCH death in Venice these days, or at least not the violent kind. A murder a year, on average, which is only just less than Donna Leon has managed to rack up in the 16 years since her cultivated, incorruptible Commissario Brunetti started to tackle la Serenissima's fictional crime wave. "Really, it's a ridiculously safe place," she says. "I can walk anywhere at two o'clock in the morning, which is almost unheard-of for a city today."See the full content of this document
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Venetian Minds
That's not, of course, what her fans want to hear. They want to follow the man The Scotsman's crime reviewer, Sir Gerald Kaufman, calls "the best of all current police detectives" round the world's most beautiful city, working out who tipped the latest corpse into the Grand Canal and watching him fight his corner with colleagues within the Questura. They want to see a clash with the forces of evil where one would least expect it - amid so much gorgeous a...
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