millions of tourists flock to the italian city of venice each year for dhanam leontes readers this is also the scene of countless crimes. homicide. solves the crimes in lands whodunits. this year the author is celebrating her seventy fifth birthday. but there's another reason for a party. brunetti has been on the scene in venice for a quarter of a century. it's not that i say well now i'm going to write a book about the traffic and women or the abuse of drugs or the banks or the insurance companies or dishonest lawyers i merely see a scene in which something happens to a particular person and then i am made curious by that see. how books have been translated into thirty five languages but not into italian leon wants venetians to retain an unbiased opinion of her because her closeness to people is what brings her books to life and this is an attempt to give people an idea of what the city might really be like it would be presumptuous of me to say that that's what the city really is like this is what i have perceived in the city . over the last thirty thirty five years having friends al