Dressed for Death
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...
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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.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780143035848 (0143035843)
Publish date: October 4th 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 343
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Murder Mystery
Series: Commissario Brunetti 6 (#3)
81. DRESSED FOR DEATH, BY DONNA LEON (Book 3 of Commissario Brunetti)The third book in the Commissario Brunetti series. The last one I’ll be reading this year, even though the series has some 10 others. I probably will continue with it in the future, even though this is not my favorite series.Synops...
Also published as "Dressed for Death."
In the heat of August in Venice we find Brunetti unable to join his family on their summer vacation when a man dressed as a woman is found dead on an vacant lot behind a slaughter house. Again Donna Leon faces issues of prejudices and how things are not what they seems in her third novel Dressed for...