In her detective novels with Commissario Brunetti, <b>Donna Leon can paralyse the reader with a joyful suspense</b>, lost in the environs of Venice and hopelessly in love with her central character and his wife
Mail on Sunday
The marvel of this book is that almost <b>every detail on every page forms part of a succession of clues, planted with exquisite precision, to unravelling the mystery</b>
Sunday Times
<b>Goes a long way to confirming Donna Leon's claim to have taken literary possession of Venice</b> . . . <i>A Noble Radiance</i> gives the reader a delightful foretaste of the summer holidays to come, but it also offers much more than that
Independent on Sunday