A review by carodonahue
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon

3.0

More like 3.5. Up to the middle, I would give it 4, but the ending was quite abrupt and felt a bit like I wash shoved out of a car without it stopping the last 15 pages. Still, the ability to make going through papers and archives interesting, compelling even, was really impressive. And Venice is in very good hands in Leon’s hands. In the end, it felt a bit more like a novella than a full novel, and I would have liked some of the threads around the central story to play out longer as well.