Ruka pravde (Commissario Brunetti #4)
by:
Branka Žodan (author)
Donna Leon (author)
ISBN:
9532030417
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Izvori, Zagreb
Pages no: 279
Edition language: Croatian
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is portrayed as rife with criminal behavior, a country so overwhelmed by new laws that are enacted one day only to be repealed the next, that the disti...