Quietly in Their Sleep [Mass Market Paperback]

Donna Leon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 29, 2007

Donna Leon?s mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetian manners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailingly decent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteries bestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing American audience. In The Death of Faith, Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who is leaving her convent following the unexpected death of five patients. At first Brunetti?s inquiries reveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. But perhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and very sinister?something that puts her life in imminent danger.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Brunetti is the most humane sleuth since Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leon’s Brunetti. -- Time

One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever -- The Washington Post

About the Author

A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. It was after a period in Saudi Arabia, which she found ‘damaging physically and spiritually’ that Donna decided to move to Venice, where she has now lived for over twenty years.

Her debut as a crime fiction writer began as a joke: talking in a dressing room in Venice’s opera-house La Fenice after a performance, Donna and a singer friend were vilifying a particular German conductor. From the thought ‘why don’t we kill him?’ and discussion of when, where and how, the idea for Death at La Fenice took shape, and was completed over the next four months.

Donna Leon is the crime reviewer for the London Sunday Times and is an opera expert. She has written the libretto for a comic opera, entitled Dona Gallina. Set in a chicken coop, and making use of existing baroque music, Donna Gallina was premiered in Innsbruck. Brigitte Fassbaender, one of the great mezzo-sopranos of our time, and now head of the Landestheater in Innsbruck, agreed to come out of retirement both to direct the opera and to play the part of the witch Azuneris (whose name combines the names of the two great Verdi villainesses Azucena and Amneris).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (May 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0143112201
• ISBN-13: 978-0143112204
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. Leon has received both the CWA Macallon Silver Dagger for Fiction and the German Corrine Prize for her novels featuring Commisario Guido Brunetti. She lives in Venice.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

104 of 110 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't be misled, June 10, 2007

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Stephen A. Hirsch - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quietly in Their Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a renaming of the Brunetti series " Death of Faith"; not a new work by Ms Leon

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Same book/new title: US edition of "Death of Faith", July 16, 2007

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J. Morse (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quietly in Their Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

As a long-time fan of Donna Leon's books, I'm not sure why the publishers had to rename the book... Just realize that if you've already read "Death of Faith" that this is the same thing!

46 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a trick to make customers to buy the same book again, July 15, 2007

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Martin Horn "Martin Horn" (Andorra) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quietly in Their Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

I think the minimum Amazon can do is to make their customer aware of the fact that a book was previously published under another name. This would stop buyers from being mislead into buyin the same book again.