The Venice-based mysteries of Donna Leon are international bestsellers, winning awards including the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, and inspiring specially guided Brunetti tours of the city. The Boston Globe writes of the series: [Leon] deals as much with social issues and the idea of family as with the central crime. It is this contrast, and [her] subtly lyrical evocation of it, as much as the food or the central mystery that makes her books irresistible.