The Jewels of Paradise Lib/E (Audiobook)

from kakadoo202

hoping to be lead into the mysteries of music history but instead i was drawn into the german history of kings and queens. not a thing i was looking for when i picked up this book with the backdrop of Venice. i made it through the book because i really wanted to know the secret ( which then was r...

from Judiex

I've read and enjoyed all of Dona Leon's previous books featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti and have been eagerly anticipating her latest book, THE JEWELS OF PARADISE. Had it been written by an author I didn't know, I would have given up on in after the first few chapters. The story is set in Ve...

from Kaysbooks

Being a huge fan of Cecilia Bartoli, I decided that it´s time to read a Donna Leon novel. And while the new cd of Cecilia Bartoli is just wonderful, I have to say that the book is not. It is just nothing but a boring narration of a non-existing story with shallow characters. This book is never th...

from booksinthebelfry

Disappointing overall (even after consciously tamping down expectations raised by Leon's Brunetti mysteries), but notable for its fond depiction of research processes and resources (not something, I grant you, that most people are looking for in a work of fiction). In a book that treats religious...

from dianaleez

Donna Leon's 'The Jewels of Paradise,' sadly lacks the magic that made her early Guido Brunetti mysteries sparkle. Briefly, it is the slowly told tale of Venetian musicologist Caterina Pellegrini's attempts to examine the long-lost papers of a forgotten baroque composer in order to decide which o...