Fatal Remedies (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Audio))
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0792786661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 532 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives Brunetti is back on track, sadder perhaps, but wiser and wittier than ever" Sunday Times "A splendid series with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can smell it" Sunday Telegraph "One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever" The Washington Post "No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice like Leon's Brunetti" Time "Brunetti's humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight" The New York Times Book Review
I had the good fortune in late April to be in Venice in I had the good fortune in late April to be in Venice in the Sestriere San Polo where Brunetti lives. I went to eat at one of Guido's favorite pizza and dining spots, Due Colonne. I was happy to discover that none of the wait staff knew anything about Donna Leon or her Commissario. Donna Leon has written wonderful "gialli", mysteries that she has not allowed to be translated into Italian thus protecting her beloved Venice. Indeed a person of high integrity.Peter Olney stansburyforum.com. helen Z. said Love her books. Love her books! She captures the essence and nuance of Venice & Venetians. I found this book a little slow in the mid section, but it picked up the pace & my interest in the last few chapters.. "It was slower and did not hold my interest like other books of hers" according to Bijou. This book was still interesting to read but much less so than other books of Commissario Brunetti. It was slower and did not hold my interest like other books of hers.
He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. . Donna Leon has written four previous Guido Brunetti novels, Death and Judgment, Dressed for Death, Death in a
Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his family s innocence before it s too late? ". In "Fatal Remedies," Brunetti s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family