The Jewels of Paradise
Author(s): Donna Leon
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in the composer's two chests that have not been opened for centuries. As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque era. When her research takes her in unexpected directions, she begins to wonder what dark secrets these chests hold and just whom can she trust?
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The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed, is Donna Leon's first stand-alone novel.
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher . Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through a Glass, Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, The Girl of His Dreams and, most recently, Beastly Things.
General Fields
- :
- : Cornerstone
- : William Heinemann Ltd
- : 0.312
- : April 0000
- : United Kingdom
- : October 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 272
- : 813.54
- : 10-Dec
- : Paperback
- : Donna Leon