<b>Crime writing of the highest order</b>
Guardian
The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is <b>an epic achievement</b> - in its own way quite the equal of Anthony Powell's <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>
The Times
Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart . . . <b>One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever</b>
The Washington Post
<b>Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted </b>... reading Leon is always an uplifting experience
- Mark Sanderson, The Times
Leon started out with <b>offhand, elegant excellence</b>, and has simply kept it up
Guardian