Dressed for Death (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
by Donna Leon
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Author: Donna LeonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN: 0143035843
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780143035848
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Summary: 4 Stars
The Venice Questura learns there had been a death, apparently in the vicinity of a factory. Red shoes of the victim trigger the discovery of the body. Guido Brunetti hears about the matter at 2:30.
Guido is filling in for another unit. He is married to Paola who has a tendancy to go too far. The death presents a puzzle for Brunetti to solve using his system. Police procedurals include intuition, the learning curve of an officer's experience. This faculty, placed in the wonderful setting of Venice, is on display here.
The Brunettis are the parents of two children Raffaele and Chiara. Guido refuses to go to Bolzano with his family while the murder case is pending. In his family's absence, events move swiftly to pile on loss to a range of victims and to add complexity to baffle the crime-solvers. Complexity consists in part on suspected financial crimes turning on the relative scarcity of apartments in Venice. (No one throws away rent receipts.) Too, the Commissario, Guido Brunetti, has a difficult superior.
On vacation, Paola tells Guido she has been reading THE SACRED FOUNT and it is wonderful, nothing happens. The book's story is exciting. The theme of evil is paralleled in Guido's mind by his reading of Tacitus. Bravo.
Summary of Dressed for Death (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series grows more popular in America with the publication of every new novel. In this installment, Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera-a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse, but he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before the night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.Leon, Donna Books
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