A review by turrean
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon

2.0

A sad letdown. I have little interest in baroque opera, so the pages and pages of historical background were wasted on me. I was impatient with the tease of a possible love interest, and INCREDULOUS at how the supposedly sensible main character handled a supremely creepy encounter with a bad guy. I did not buy it. The solution to the "mystery" was facile and anticlimactic. Very disappointing.