A review by annegreen
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

3.0

Captivating for its colourful descriptions of Venice. The plot was entertaining but spoiled for me by the constant use of coincidences which stretched credibility. Venice might be a small city compared to say New York, but the way Juliet and Leo regularly ran into each other beginning with the star-crossed first meeting (Leo's Sir Galahad fishing her out of a canal, which believe it or not happens again in slightly different circumstances some years later, and ending (most unlikely of all) of them catching sight of each other through the bars of a prisoner of war camp after which an equally unlikely benevolent guard encourages them in their sad trysts because "Italians are sentimental" or some such, were beyond belief.