Podcast
Fresh Air
The discussion highlighted The Lover of No Fixed Abode as a humorous mystery set in Venice, focusing on a middleaged art scout who becomes entangled with an enigmatic tour guide. The reviewer praised its witty insight into Venetian life and its unexpected solution.
The humorous slier in my favorite mystery novel this year, The Lover of No Fixed Abode, by Carlo Frutero and Franco Lucentini, a hugely popular Italian literary team. Set in Venice, it's about a middl...
— Episode: Billie Eilish & Finneas
Episode: Billie Eilish & Finneas
The discussion highlighted The Lover of No Fixed Abode as a humorous mystery set in Venice, focusing on a middleaged art scout who becomes entangled with an enigmatic tour guide. The reviewer praised its witty insight into Venetian life and its unexpected solution.
The humorous slier in my favorite mystery novel this year, The Lover of No Fixed Abode, by Carlo Frutero and Franco Lucentini, a hugely popular Italian literary team. Set in Venice, it's about a middleaged signora who's an art scout for big auction houses, who finds herself attracted to an enigmatic tour guide leader, Mr. Silvera, who seems to know everything and greets every situation with a different inflection of the word ah. The mystery is, who is he? Shimmering with wit and bursting with an insider's knowledge of Venice, The Lover of No Fixed Abode builds to a solution so unexpected that not one person in a million will guess it.