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Transient Desires (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #30) (Large Print / Library Binding)
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This is book number 30 in the Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series.
- #1: Uniform Justice (Paperback): $16.00
- #2: Death in a Strange Country (Paperback): $18.00
- #3: Dressed for Death (Paperback): $16.00
- #4: Death and Judgment (Paperback): $16.00
- #5: Acqua Alta (Paperback): $17.00
- #6: Quietly in Their Sleep: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $17.00
- #7: A Noble Radiance (Paperback): $16.00
- #8: Friends in High Places (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #8) (Paperback): $16.00
- #9: Friends in High Places (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Audio) #9) (Compact Disc): $29.95
- #10: A Sea of Troubles: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $17.00
- #11: Willful Behavior: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $17.00
- #14: Blood from a Stone (Paperback): $16.00
- #15: Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #16: The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #16) (Paperback): $16.00
- #17: The Girl of His Dreams: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #18: About Face: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #19: A Question of Belief: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #20: Drawing Conclusions: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #21: Beastly Things (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Audio) #21) (MP3 CD): $44.95
- #22: The Golden Egg (Paperback): $18.00
- #23: By Its Cover: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $18.00
- #24: Falling in Love (Paperback): $16.00
- #26: Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #27: The Temptation of Forgiveness: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback): $16.00
- #31: Give Unto Others (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #31) (Large Print / Library Binding): $35.99
- #32: So Shall You Reap (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #32) (Large Print / Library Binding): $37.99
Description
In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?
As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organized.
Donna Leon's Transient Desires is as powerful as any novel she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth.
About the Author
Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.
