Donna Leon's
crime fiction novel
A Sea of Troubles (2001) takes place on Pellestrina. The protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police, must solve the murders of two clam fishermen off the shore of Pellestrina and encounters great difficulty conducting an investigation when faced with the island's close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders. Though a native of Venice, which is a short boat ride away, to the islanders he is a foreigner. Cenzo Vianelli, the hero of
The Girl from Venice (2016), a novel written by
Martin Cruz Smith, lives and works as a fisherman in Pellestrina in 1945. ==Gallery==