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The jewels of paradise

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling 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...

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  • "Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling 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..."@en
  • "Caterina Pellegrini, a native Venetian with a doctorate in baroque opera, must determine the rightful ownership of two locked trunks belonging to a famous composer who has been dead for centuries."@en
  • "Caterina Pellegrini, a native Venetian with a doctorate in baroque opera, must determine the rightful ownership of two locked trunks belonging to a famous composer who has been dead for centuries."
  • "Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian with a doctorate in baroque opera who had been working abroad in England. Pellegrini has been hired to return home and attend the opening of trunks containing papers of a now deceased-and-forgotten baroque composer and examine the papers for his 'testamentary disposition.' Her research takes an unexpected turn when she is followed through the streets by a silent man. Now, she must determine what secrets the papers may hold."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. Caterina Pellegrini, a native Venetian with a doctorate in baroque opera, must determine the rightful ownership of two locked trunks belonging to a famous composer who has been dead for centuries."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "The jewels of paradise"
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  • "Jewels of paradise"
  • "The jewels of paradise : [a novel]"@en
  • "The jewels of paradise a novel"@en
  • "The jewels of paradise a novel"
  • "The Jewels of Paradise [cd book]"@en

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