Monika Elwenspoek Libri

Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of apparent calm but beneath the surface lie not one but three different personalities. One of them is very private. And very dangerous.

When a lorry crashes on one of the treacherous hair-pin bends in the Italian Dolomites even Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is appalled when he learns of its terrible cargo. This is Donna Leon's fourth novel to feature Guido Brunetti.

Ray Bradbury nimmt den Leser mit auf Rückwärts-vorwärts-Zeitreisen in eine Welt voller unvergesslicher Kindheitsphantasien und fantastischer Möglichkeiten, wo das Wunderbare den Alltag erleuchtet. Nach dem Lesen braucht man einen Moment, um sich wieder in der Realität zurechtzufinden.

The murder of two of the clam fishermen of the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her