The Venetian Masquerade
$32.70
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2019
Summary
A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice …
Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland’s birthday is about to be ruined.
A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience - and this time it will be so for all the wrong reasons as the curtain call is interrupted by a fatal stabbing. But why is the dead man carrying o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472129734 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472129733 |
| Author: | Philip Gwynne Jones |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 28mm |
| Series: | The Nathan Sutherland Series |
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Sinister and shimmering, The Venetian Game is as haunting and darkly elegant as Venice itself
…a playful novel, recounted by a witty and engaging narrator … as Venetian as a painting by Bellini (or a glass of Bellini). Oh, and it’s also an unputdownable thrillerA crime book for people with sophisticated tastes: Venice, opera, renaissance art, good food and wine… I enjoyed all that and more - The Crime WarpIt is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice… art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax - Daily Mail on The Venetian GameThe Venetian setting is vividly described and Gwynne Jones’s good, fluent writing makes for easy reading - Literary Reviewa civilized, knowledgeable, charming antidote to the darker reaches of the genre, full of entertaining descriptions of the city… Lovely. Makes you want to book a flight to Venice straight away…he puts not one foot wrong with his topography and knowledge… Add a satisfyingly (but not gratuitously) surprising and action-packed ending and you have a book that I can wholeheartedly recommend - Fictional Cities on The Venetian GameA crime story that positively thrives among the shadowy streets and canals of Venice… Gorgeous escapism with stacks of atmosphere and double-cross - Saga magazineAbout The Author
Philip Gwynne Jones
Philip Gwynne Jones was born in South Wales in 1966, and lived and worked throughout Europe before settling in Scotland in the 1990s. He first came to Italy in 1994, when he spent some time working for the European Space Agency in Frascati, a job that proved to be less exciting than he had imagined.
He spent twenty years in the IT industry before realising he was congenitally unsuited to it. Furthermore, an attempt to find a secure, well-paid job with a proper pension had resulted in him finding himself in the IT department of a large Scottish bank during the global financial crisis.
Something, clearly, had to change. And so it was that - following a conversation with a man in a pub - Philip and Caroline left their jobs, sold their flat and moved to Venice in search of a better, simpler future. They were wrong about the ‘simpler’ bit …
Philip now works as a teacher, writer and translator, and lives in Venice with Caroline. He enjoys cooking, art, classical music and opera; and can occasionally be seen and heard singing bass with Cantori Veneziani and the Ensemble Vocale di Venezia.
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