Goodreads asked Tracey Warr:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Tracey Warr Donna Leon’s police investigator, Guido Brunetti and his wife, Paola, who is a University English Literature professor specialising in the study of Henry James's novels. I love Leon’s creation of the spaces and sites of Venice and of Brunetti and Paola’s home life, which are woven into her crime plots. Paola never plays a direct role in the unravelling of the mysteries Guido solves, although her aristocratic connections sometimes come in handy. Leon portrays the humorous, intellectual and emotional relationship between the couple which is a constant support to Guido in his work, stopping him from despairing about the often evil people he has to confront, and the tragedies he has to witness. I’m quite happy to be a gooseberry with this gourmandising, reading, wine sipping couple in novel after novel. They make me feel at home too.

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