Politics, faith, and the occasional corpse

Donna Leon is best known for her subtle and enduring Commissario Guido Brunetti detective series, set in Venice. The latest installment in that series, "The Girl of His Dreams" (Atlantic Monthly, $24), is Leon's 17th Brunetti outing and one of her finest; a cunning novel of great depth, it opens with the peaceful death of Brunetti's mothe...

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