by Donna Leon
71. DEATH IN A STRANGE COUNTRY, BY DONNA LEON (Book 2 of Commissario Brunetti)The second installment in the Commissario Brunetti series.Synopsis: A young American man is found dead, floating in one of the canals of Venice. Brunetti is called to investigate, and in the process he ends up unearthing a...
When I first started reading Donna Leon books, I thought how fortunate I am not to live in a country with the kind of corruption described. I am no longer so naive. The Brunetti family is one of the few things that keeps me coming back. Without them, the view of the world here is just too depress...
A body is found in a canal in Venice and Guido Brunetti tries to find out what really happened even though his superior officers seem to want everything glossed over.
In the second novel in Leon's Brunetti series, we are introduced to Brunetti's inner circle at the police station. Sgt Vianello, the young Pucetti and Bonsuan the boat driver. Death in a Strange Country in dark and a cynical tale of corruption, murder and cover up. Leon understand the way men corrup...
I continue to be an enormous fan of the Commisario Brunetti series. For those of you who may have missed my earlier reviews, Donna Leon teaches English for the University of Maryland Extension near Venice and has lived in Italy for many years. She portrays the flavor of Italian life vividly, and it'...
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