About Face by Donna Leon

About Face by Donna Leon (Heinemann $42 Signed).

We're down to just 7 but the US edition is in (Grove $24)

Leon likes to fashion her plots of environmental or social concerns allied with political, both national and police issues. She's deeply cynical but clearly loves her adopted city (she's American). At issue in About Face is the toxic mess Italy suffers over garbage! it's one of those services always on strike. (Heinemann $42 Signed).

We're down to just 7 but the US edition is in (Grove $24).Leon likes to fashion her plots of environmental or social concerns allied with political, both national and police issues. She's deeply cynical but clearly loves her adopted city (she's American). At issue in About Face is the toxic mess Italy suffers over garbage! it's one of those services always on strike.

Enhance the experience with Brunetti's Venice: Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective.($17) by Toni Sepeda.

Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon’s internationally best-selling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice’s churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos.

In Brunetti’s Venice, tourists and armchair travelers follow in the footsteps of Brunetti as he traverses the city he knows and loves. With his acute eye for change in his native city, his fascination with the past, his ear for language and his passion for food and drink, and his familiarity with the dark realities of crime and corruption, Brunetti is the perfect companion for any walk across La Serenissima. Over a dozen walks, encompassing all six regions of Venice as well as the lagoon, lead readers down calli, over canali, and through campi. Important locations from the best-selling novels are highlighted and major themes and characters are explored, all accompanied by poignant excerpts from the novels. This is a must-have companion book for any lover of Donna Leon’s wonderful mysteries.