Monika Elwenspoek Knihy

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.

Rušné námestia, očarujúce kanály, ale aj schátrané nočné podniky Benátok sú kulisou tohoto vzrušujúceho detektívneho príbehu. Šarmantný komisár Brunetti márne hľadá súvislosť medzi vraždou významného právnika a samovraždou vysoko postaveného účtovníka. Na stopu ho privedie prostitútka, okuliare a nelegálna videokazeta. Aby rozbil kruh neresti, musí zostúpiť až do benátskeho podsvetia…

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.