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3.9/5 Barnes & Noble Series Guido Brunetti, #1 Publication date 1992 Originally published 1992 Adaptations Death at La Fenice Genres Crime Fiction, Mystery | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publisher Arrow (UK) ISBN 0-09-946936-7 Country Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Followed by Death in a Strange Country Crime Fiction books The Shape of Water, Faceless Killers, The Fifth Woman, Dead Lagoon, Sidetracked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death at La Fenice (1992), the first novel by American academic and crime-writer Donna Leon, is the first of the internationally best-selling Commissario Brunetti mystery series, set in Venice, Italy. The novel won the Japanese Suntory prize, and its sequel is Death in a Strange Country (1993).
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Plot
A world-famous German opera conductor has died at La Fenice, and Commissario (Detective) Guido Brunetti pursues what appears to be a murder investigation without leads.
Inspiration
Leon, who completed a doctorate in Indiana, specialising in 18th-century novelists, is an ex-pat American who lives in Venice. A friend of Leon's, a famous conductor, "suggested she try a crime novel. She wrote Death at la Fenice as a joke. When she finished the book she stashed it away and forgot about it until submitting it for the Suntory prize in Japan. Somewhat to her consternation, it won and she was offered a two-book contract by Harper Collins. This meant, among other things, that she was compelled to write a sequel. 'I lucked out,' she says."