The jewels of paradise: a novel
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Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her bestselling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, one of contemporary crime fiction's most beloved characters. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first stand-alone novel. Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham, however, is no Venice, so when she gets word of a position back home, Caterina jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a once-famous, now largely forgotten baroque composer, have been discovered. The composer was deeply connected in religious and political circles, but he died childless, and now two Venetian men, descendants of his cousins, each claim inheritance. With rumors of a treasure, they aren't about to share the possible fortune. Caterina has been hired to attend the opening of the trunks and examine any enclosed papers to discover the "testamentary disposition" of the composer. But when her research takes her in unexpected directions and a silent man follows her through the streets, she begins to wonder just what secrets these trunks may hold. The Jewels of Paradise is a superb novel, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history, and greed.
Subjects
Subjects
Audiobooks
Claims against decedents' estates
Claims against decedents' estates -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction
Composers
Composers -- Italy -- Fiction
Composers -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction
Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, Italian
Fiction
Inheritance and succession
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Large type books
Literature
Mystery
Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Women musicologists
Women musicologists -- Fiction
Claims against decedents' estates
Claims against decedents' estates -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction
Composers
Composers -- Italy -- Fiction
Composers -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction
Detective and mystery stories, American
Detective and mystery stories, Italian
Fiction
Inheritance and succession
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Large type books
Literature
Mystery
Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Women musicologists
Women musicologists -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780802120649
9780792795056
9781410454324
9780802120632
9780792795049
9781620644867
162064486
9780792795056
9781410454324
9780802120632
9780792795049
9781620644867
162064486
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title_display | The jewels of paradise |
title_full | The Jewels of Paradise, The jewels of paradise / Donna Leon, The jewels of paradise [sound recording] : a novel / Donna Leon, The jewels of paradise [text (large print)] / Donna Leon |
title_short | The jewels of paradise |
title_sub | a novel |
topic_facet | Audiobooks, Claims against decedents' estates, Composers, Detective and mystery stories, American, Detective and mystery stories, Italian, Fiction, Inheritance and succession, Large type books, Literature, Mystery, Women musicologists |