Event | "Murder in Venice": The Commissario Guido Brunetti Series

“Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive, and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon…One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.”—Washington Post

Join crime novelists Donna Leon and Judith Flanders for a conversation exploring the newest installment of Leon's much beloved, New York Times bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series set in Venice. With TRACE ELEMENTS, the twenty-ninth novel in the series, a woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region. Rich and mysterious with the colours of Venetian life, an unusual cocktail of atmosphere and event, Leon and Flanders' will explore the writers' process, and introduce audiences to a Venice only insiders know. 

Doors open at 17:00, with the talk beginning at 17:30.

Presented in collaboration with the Friends of the McGill Library, and with the generous support of Ron Harvie (Ph.D. McGill Art History, 1999) and Doug Bagguley.

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Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland.

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Timesbestselling The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; and The Making of Home (2014). She is also the author of Christmas: A Biography (2017). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.