*Leon, Donna: - Donna Leon has written four previous Guido Brunetti novels, Death and Judgment, Dressed for Death, Death in a Strange Country,and Death at La Fenice *, which won the Suntory Prize for the best suspense novel of 1991. She teaches English at the University of Maryland extension at a U....

*Leon, Donna: - Donna Leon has written four previous Guido Brunetti novels, Death and Judgment, Dressed for Death, Death in a Strange Country,and Death at La Fenice *, which won the Suntory Prize for the best suspense novel of 1991. She teaches English at the University of Maryland extension at a U.S. Air Force base near Venice Italy, where she has lived for over twenty years.