Monika Elwenspoek Livres

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.

Le cadavre du célèbre avocat vénitien Carlo Trevisan est retrouvé dans un train et c'est, bien sûr, le commissaire Brunetti qui est chargé de mener l'enquête. Arpentant les quartiers malfamés de Venise, il tombe sur la piste d'un trafic international de prostitution et va découvrir un commerce plus ignoble encore qu'une «traite des Blanches» post-rideau de fer... Donna Leon rend hommage à l'atmosphère unique de la cité des Doges. On retrouve l'univers attachant de son héros, fin limier en lutte contre les citoyens d'une ville dont le sens moral semble se détériorer plus vite que les palaces. Meurtres et corruption, argent sale et troubles implications de l'élite vénitienne sont au rendez-vous de ce roman au suspense savamment entretenu. [Source : 4e de couverture]

The murder of two clam fishermen off 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 boss' 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 ...

Bradbury has travelled many roads in the course of a long and celebrated career: rutted backwood paths that led to dark and dangerous places; country highways that wound through the unseen heart of America; shimmering celestial turnpikes as limitless and exciting as the unbound imagination. In DRIVING BLIND he takes us on twenty-one roads we have never visited before. Here are unforgettable excursions to the fantastic, glorious grand tours through time and memory, where surprises are waiting around each bend and just before every roadsign.