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Book Review

About Face lived in Venice for the past more than 25 as other garbage piles up on city streets
years, and it shows. Time Magazine noted, uncollected by gang-controlled truckers
By Nils A. Shapiro “No one knows the labyrinthine world of … even as the wealthy plan how to turn
Although I would Venice or the way favoritism and corruption this into investment opportunities.
like to believe that a shape Italian life like Leon’s Brunetti.” For those already hooked on
recommendation from me The title of this book, About Face, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his
would be enough for some published halfway through the series in associates in Venice’s Police Department
readers of this column to 2009, is a play on words that must have – and who are familiar with Brunetti’s
consider this month’s book pleased the author to no end when she charming and wise wife, Paola, and her
selection deserving of your came up with it. For one of the main wealthy Count and Countess parents
own time and attention, characters is a once beautiful young (here, Comte and Comtessa) – this
I can think of nothing society woman whose face has been fast-paced novel introduces a new and
more convincing than this disfigured, by what we assume to be fascinating cast of characters and surprise
stunning fact: excessive cosmetic surgery – a fact of ending.
About Face is one of 33 detective novels written by author great significance in a storyline that Next, you will be looking for another of
Donna Leon about her leading character, Commissario Guido includes three murders, the illegal hauling Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti mysteries.
Brunetti, who solves mysteries in his hometown of Venice, and storage of nuclear and other toxic There are certainly many waiting for you
Italy … and these novels have won a sizable enough fan base waste, and the pollution of Venice’s canals … or rather, for us.
to support 33 novels about the same character!
Having read this one example of author Donna Leon’s
work, I can readily understand what has made her books so
appealing. To begin with, she is so observant and her writing
style so visually descriptive that you find yourself convinced
her dialogue would serve as the script for a film and her
narrative as detailed instructions for the set designer.
As for the setting? Leon was born in Montclair, N.J., but has
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