The Golden Egg (Commissario Brunetti, #22)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780434022519 (0434022519)
Publish date: April 4th 2013
Publisher: William Heinemann
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Italy,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
International,
Italian Literature
Series: Commissario Brunetti (#22)
I'm a Donna Leon fan, believing she's at the top of her game and one of the finest suspense writers of my time. I begin each novel with slight hesitation, hoping she's not tiring of Inspector Brunetti and his family, or his work in the floating city.This latest manuscript is one of her best. It also...
The Golden Egg is the 22nd outing for Commissario Guido Brunetti and finds him looking into the death of a deaf mute man who worked in the launderette Brunetti frequents. As he investigates he finds people closing ranks, comes into contact with a wealthy family beset with tragedy, and discovers that...
Book 22, in the Commissario Brunetti seriesFirst I admit being a huge fan of this series but after reading this latest I am really not sure what to make out of it. “The Golden Egg” unfolds in such a languorous manner and keeps the same slow pace throughout I felt I had taken a sleeping pill and wait...
The Venice-based Brunetti mysteries feature well-dressed Italian people, delicious food, frequent coffee and wine breaks, and a polite and philosophical detective married to a fiery liberal literature professor who happens to be the daughter of a rich conte and contessa. The minor complaint I have i...
Brunetti "still remained surprised at how few people read. He read, Paola read, the kids read, but he realized how seldom he talked about books or found a person who appeared to take a serious interest in them."Thankfully, we have GoodReads….
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