Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue.
In "A Noble Radiance" a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.
- ISBN10 0142003190
- ISBN13 9780142003190
- Publish Date 26 August 2003 (first published 5 March 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Group
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 304
- Language English