A Venetian Reckoning
A lorry crashes on one of the treacherous bends in the Italian Dolomites, spilling a terrible cargo ...A prominent international layer is found dead in the carriage of an intercity train at Saint Lucia ...Can the two tragedies possibly be connected? Commissario Guido Brunetti digs deep into the...
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A lorry crashes on one of the treacherous bends in the Italian Dolomites, spilling a terrible cargo ...A prominent international layer is found dead in the carriage of an intercity train at Saint Lucia ...Can the two tragedies possibly be connected? Commissario Guido Brunetti digs deep into the secret lives of the once great and good for the answer. For in a seedy Venetian bar lies the clue to an evil crime network reaching far beyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venice before the forces of justice can even begin to proceed ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781447201649 (1447201647)
ASIN: 1447201647
Publish date: January 5th 2012
Publisher: Pan
Pages no: 326
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Murder Mystery,
Italian Literature
Series: Commissario Brunetti 6 (#4)
Cuatro estrellas! Siempre se me olvida lo grato que es leer a la Donna Leon. De partida, el protagonista es el Comissario Brunetti, un tipo al que es un gusto visitar por ser un policía honesto, con dos hijos y una mujer que aunque es hija de millonarios, es de izquierda y profesora de literatura en...
It was three stars tending toward four until the end....I have come to expect a satisfactory (which is NOT to say happy) conclusion from these (wonderful) books. I didn't get it here.
This is a dark, cynical tale of corruption, the madness of men and how men can become so alien from their human side that trading, exploiting, selling and killing humans, especially women, is a way of life and business as usual. The principal characters in Leon's Brunetti universe are set by this bo...
Commissario Brunetti, a regular readers of Rarebits, will remember, is the creation of Donna Leon. He's stubbornly honest in an Italian society that is portrayed as rife with criminal behavior, a country so overwhelmed by new laws that are enacted one day only to be repealed the next, that the disti...
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