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From the bestselling author of the Brunetti series comes The Jewels of Paradise , a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon's first stnad-alone novel.
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.
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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?
Donna Leon, geb. 1942, verließ mit 23 Jahren New Jersey, um in Perugia und Siena weiterzustudieren. Seit 1965 lebt sie ständig im Ausland, arbeitet als Reiseleiterin in Rom, als Werbetexterin in London, an amerikanischen Schulen in der Schweiz, im Iran, in China und Saudi-Arabien. Seit 1981 lebt und arbeitet sie in Venedig.
© Regine Mosimann, Diogenes Verlag
" Jewels of Paradise demonstrates the author's deep understanding of Venice, and is an entertaining work that questions the changing values of life over the ages. Like life, it makes you wait to the end to understand the plot." Selected by Lord Browne (former Chief Executive of BP) as his summer read in the Financial Times