Tag: Donna Leon

Now that we’re all housebound, what we need is a book that will whisk us off to someplace else. Fancy travelling to Italy? Donna Leon‘s series of crime novels set in Venice will make you feel like you’re there, popping into a little coffee house with Inspector Brunetti for your morning coffee and pastry, eavesdropping as the regulars converse in the Venetian dialect impenetrable to non-locals. The mystery part of the book is always gripping, but for me the real …