The Venetian Masquerade

  • Author Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Narrator Tim Bruce
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Run Time 9 hours and 41 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Crime and mystery fiction.
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What to expect

A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice . . .

Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland's birthday is about to be ruined.

A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience - and this time it will be so for all the wrong reasons as the curtain call is interrupted by a fatal stabbing. But why is the dead man carrying one of Nathan's business cards in his wallet?

The mystery of the murdered stranger takes Nathan on the trail of a lost opera by Monteverdi. But what begins as a harmless treasure hunt leads to ruthless criminals asking the highest of prices for the lost score... and then a second body is found in the sanctuary of Venice's English church.

The quest for the lost manuscript will bring Nathan back to the stage of La Fenice, where a final confrontation has deadly consequences...

Praise for Philip Gwynne Jones

'An unputdownable thriller' Gregory Dowling

'Art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax' Daily Mail

'Superb - always gripping, beautifully constructed and vivid' Stephen Glover

'Clever and great fun' The Times

'Sinister and shimmering, The Venetian Game is as haunting and darkly elegant as Venice itself' L.S. Hilton, bestselling author of Maestra

Critics Review

  • An irresistible concoction of crime and culture

    Daily Mail

  • Sinister and shimmering, The Venetian Game is as haunting and darkly elegant as Venice itself

    L.S. Hilton, bestselling author of Maestra

  • …a playful novel, recounted by a witty and engaging narrator … as Venetian as a painting by Bellini (or a glass of Bellini). Oh, and it’s also an unputdownable thriller

    Gregory Dowling on The Venetian Game

  • A crime book for people with sophisticated tastes: Venice, opera, renaissance art, good food and wine… I enjoyed all that and more

    The Crime Warp

  • It is no surprise to find that Philip Gwynne Jones lives in Venice… art and architecture interweave into a story that builds to an almost surreal climax

    Daily Mail on The Venetian Game

  • The Venetian setting is vividly described and Gwynne Jones’s good, fluent writing makes for easy reading

    Literary Review

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