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Donna Leon
Donna Leon (; born in 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey)〔Marder, Dianna. ("This case is culinary: Commissario's favorites" ), ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', July 8, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2011. "Some 25 years ago, an English teacher and opera expert originally from Montclair, N.J., felt the lure of the lagoons and adopted Venice as her home. Now Donna Leon, 67, is the celebrated author of 19 international best sellers (more than two million sold) featuring a shrewd but principled police detective by the name of Guido Brunetti - and she is finally rewarding her readers with a cookbook of his favorite recipes."〕 is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero ''Commissario Guido Brunetti''.
Leon has lived in Venice for over 25 years. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College - Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy and then worked as a professor from 1981 to 1999 at the American military base of Vicenza (Italy). She stopped teaching and concentrated on writing and other cultural activities in the field of music (especially baroque music).
The ''Commissario Brunetti'' novels are all situated in or around Venice. They are written in English and translated into many foreign languages, but not into Italian, at Leon's request. The ninth ''Brunetti'' novel, ''Friends in High Places'', won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000. German Television has produced 20 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast.
==Setting==
The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice. Each case is an opportunity for the author to reveal another aspect of the seamy underside of society and another aspect of Venetian life. Brunetti serves the vain and self-serving buffoon, Vice-Questore Patta, while Sergente (later Ispettore) Vianello and the all-knowing and well-connected Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary, assist Brunetti on the ground and through research.
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