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    JUMPING BACK IN

    Jun 20, 2021 4 minutes

    I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Donna Leon in Venice in 2013, when she walked me around her Castello neighbour-hood on the northern side of the island, near the Ospedale Civile, looking towards the cemetery island of San Michele.

    Leon, the American thriller writer who lived in Venice for more than three decades and is known for her Commissario Brunetti series, was pointing out where she’d thrown the bodies in the books, the invasive weeds choking the canals and complaining loudly about the horrors of cruise ships and mass tourism. We stopped at the Cafe Rosa Salva, where her quietly charismatic police detective, Guido Brunetti, sometimes drops in for

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