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In Fatal Remedies, Brunetti's career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. 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. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his family's innocence before it's too late?
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LibraryThing member Joycepa
Fatal Remedies
Donna Leon
8th in the Commisario Brunetti series, set in Venice, Italy.
An early morning phone call from the Questura summons Brunetti to complete the arrest, for vandalism, of--Paola, his wife. She’s thrown a rock through the window of a travel agency, protesting its knowing
Then the owner of the travel agency is murdered, and Patta conveniently forgets that he has suspended Brunetti, giving him the case.
This is one of the best in the series. Leon has taken yet another social issue--sex tourism in third world countries--and has woven an incredible discussion of the different views of the morality of action by means of the very real argument between Brunetti and Paola. There is absolutely nothing forced or preachy or phony about it, and it works like a charm, not only to illuminate the issue but to give incredible depth and intensity to the story. The plot itself is one of her best; there is an unusual amount of action in it, since Leon prefers to write character-driven, real-life stories in a small Italian city that is relatively crime-free. But the action is there, and it’s a page-turner. The denouement is very well done, and is a surprise, a satisfying one.
By this time, if you’re a fan of Leon’s books, you know what to expect in terms of her solid recurring characters, the authenticity of the ambience of Venice, and the way she weaves her plots.
One of the strongest in the series--highly recommended.
Donna Leon
8th in the Commisario Brunetti series, set in Venice, Italy.
An early morning phone call from the Questura summons Brunetti to complete the arrest, for vandalism, of--Paola, his wife. She’s thrown a rock through the window of a travel agency, protesting its knowing
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complicity in sex tourism to third world countries, where children are prostituted to pederasts. While in sympathy with her rage, Paola has broken the law and put Brunetti in a lose-lose situation; not only is he in a massive argument with Paula, he is put on administrative leave by Vice-Questore Patta because he refuses to either deceive his wife or make deals for her, insisting the she and she alone has to decide whether and how to settle. The whole thing becomes a media circus, a nightmare for the family.Then the owner of the travel agency is murdered, and Patta conveniently forgets that he has suspended Brunetti, giving him the case.
This is one of the best in the series. Leon has taken yet another social issue--sex tourism in third world countries--and has woven an incredible discussion of the different views of the morality of action by means of the very real argument between Brunetti and Paola. There is absolutely nothing forced or preachy or phony about it, and it works like a charm, not only to illuminate the issue but to give incredible depth and intensity to the story. The plot itself is one of her best; there is an unusual amount of action in it, since Leon prefers to write character-driven, real-life stories in a small Italian city that is relatively crime-free. But the action is there, and it’s a page-turner. The denouement is very well done, and is a surprise, a satisfying one.
By this time, if you’re a fan of Leon’s books, you know what to expect in terms of her solid recurring characters, the authenticity of the ambience of Venice, and the way she weaves her plots.
One of the strongest in the series--highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member AlanWPowers
First read after my month on the Lido, commuting by vaporetto to the Biblioteca Marciana to research my books on Giordano Bruno. His first Inquisition Trial was right next to Basilica San Marco, in the little San Teodoro, still closed to all but locals, clerics. I think San Teodoro can be entered
Another year we stayed for a week at Campo Santi Apostoli, near where we heard the author lived south of Campo Santa Maria Nova. At any rate, we had great daily experience of the vaporetto routes, and of course the grand Ponte Rialto, built in marble in the 1590’s.
Commissario Brunetti lives near Campo San Polo, not too far from playwright Goldoni’s house at the San Toma vaporetto stop. He usually walks from home, across the Rialto bridge, and various routes to arrive at headquarters, the Questura on Rio dei Grechi. Brunetti and I share very few things, but taste in wine— Pinot Grigio—and in books—on “administrative leave” he goes home and reads all of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall.
Unlike many of her novels, where Brunetti solves a crime that the Italian state bureaucracy somehow inhibits prosecuting, here Commissario actually has evidence that will hold up. No spoiler, but the evidence after an inspiration, at home when he almost runs out. Leon does not allow her novels translated into Italian, where they might be seen as an attack on Italian government and its high taxation—which justifies almost envy crime. Here a crime had implicated his wife who protested against a travel agency selling sex-tours to S Asia. She brought a rock from Maine (where I spent my youth summers on 40 acres) to use in her night attack on the agency owned by the rich chemist later found murdered.
Though she herself is American with a British accent (say, “maths” for US “math”), the heart of Donna Leon’s mysteries is very Italian: la casa, la famiglia. House and family. Here, Brunetti’s daughter Chiara (11?) asks “Are you and Mom going to have an argument?
“Why do you say that?
“You always call Mamma ‘your mother’ when you’re going to have an argument with her.”
“Yes, I suppose I do.” (47*).
Chiara had earlier satirized her older brother Raffi, who tells his dad, “I hope you don’t mind I used your razor.” Chiara, “To do what? There’s certainly nothing growing on that face of yours that needs a razor” (31).
As in many of my favorite books*, the US comes in for glancing satire, as in his computer whizz Signorina Elettra, also secretary to his semi-competent boss. Brunetti asks her, “‘Accessed’?”
“It’s computer speak, sir.”
“To access?” he asked. “It’s a verb now.”
“Yes, sir, I believe it is.”
“But it didn’t used to be,” Brunetti said, remembering when it had been a noun.
“I think Americans are allowed to do that to their words, sir”(37).
Wonderful, amusing writing. Many fully drawn characters like the semi-competent boss, Patta, who occasionally impresses the Commissario by bureaucratically positioning crimes out of their jurisdiction. Then there’s Pattta’s kissass Lieut. Scarpa, as well as Brunetti’s faithful officer Vianello and others. While Brunetti has his own office, on a higher floor reached by stairs, officers like Vianello share one large room.
As for suspects, besides his wife Paola—why his boss sends him on “administrative leave,” though he needs him back to solve the crime—there’s a passel of ‘em, including mafiosi, pizzaioli, business successes and failures. And there’s serious business fraud selling deadly potion to UN charities for poor countries.
* Pagination from Penguin, first edition, 1999.
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from Rio Canonico (also called Rio di Palazzo) behind the Palazzo Ducale—see entrance on the cover of my book, Worlds of Giordano Bruno. [A Facebook page, too.] Another year we stayed for a week at Campo Santi Apostoli, near where we heard the author lived south of Campo Santa Maria Nova. At any rate, we had great daily experience of the vaporetto routes, and of course the grand Ponte Rialto, built in marble in the 1590’s.
Commissario Brunetti lives near Campo San Polo, not too far from playwright Goldoni’s house at the San Toma vaporetto stop. He usually walks from home, across the Rialto bridge, and various routes to arrive at headquarters, the Questura on Rio dei Grechi. Brunetti and I share very few things, but taste in wine— Pinot Grigio—and in books—on “administrative leave” he goes home and reads all of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall.
Unlike many of her novels, where Brunetti solves a crime that the Italian state bureaucracy somehow inhibits prosecuting, here Commissario actually has evidence that will hold up. No spoiler, but the evidence after an inspiration, at home when he almost runs out. Leon does not allow her novels translated into Italian, where they might be seen as an attack on Italian government and its high taxation—which justifies almost envy crime. Here a crime had implicated his wife who protested against a travel agency selling sex-tours to S Asia. She brought a rock from Maine (where I spent my youth summers on 40 acres) to use in her night attack on the agency owned by the rich chemist later found murdered.
Though she herself is American with a British accent (say, “maths” for US “math”), the heart of Donna Leon’s mysteries is very Italian: la casa, la famiglia. House and family. Here, Brunetti’s daughter Chiara (11?) asks “Are you and Mom going to have an argument?
“Why do you say that?
“You always call Mamma ‘your mother’ when you’re going to have an argument with her.”
“Yes, I suppose I do.” (47*).
Chiara had earlier satirized her older brother Raffi, who tells his dad, “I hope you don’t mind I used your razor.” Chiara, “To do what? There’s certainly nothing growing on that face of yours that needs a razor” (31).
As in many of my favorite books*, the US comes in for glancing satire, as in his computer whizz Signorina Elettra, also secretary to his semi-competent boss. Brunetti asks her, “‘Accessed’?”
“It’s computer speak, sir.”
“To access?” he asked. “It’s a verb now.”
“Yes, sir, I believe it is.”
“But it didn’t used to be,” Brunetti said, remembering when it had been a noun.
“I think Americans are allowed to do that to their words, sir”(37).
Wonderful, amusing writing. Many fully drawn characters like the semi-competent boss, Patta, who occasionally impresses the Commissario by bureaucratically positioning crimes out of their jurisdiction. Then there’s Pattta’s kissass Lieut. Scarpa, as well as Brunetti’s faithful officer Vianello and others. While Brunetti has his own office, on a higher floor reached by stairs, officers like Vianello share one large room.
As for suspects, besides his wife Paola—why his boss sends him on “administrative leave,” though he needs him back to solve the crime—there’s a passel of ‘em, including mafiosi, pizzaioli, business successes and failures. And there’s serious business fraud selling deadly potion to UN charities for poor countries.
* Pagination from Penguin, first edition, 1999.
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LibraryThing member TadAD
This entry in the series left me very ho-hum. I already can't remember what it was about...and I just read it two weeks ago.
LibraryThing member Talbin
Fatal Remedies, the eighth installment in Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, begins with Brunetti's wife, Paola, throwing a rock through a travel agency's window. The vandalism is an act of protest - the travel agency provides sex tours in third world countries. Paola is not arrested,
This was quite a well-paced book, and finally there was a hint that perhaps the guilty party may receive true justice. So many of Leon's books end with a sort of shrug toward the corrupt Italian legal system, so it's satisfying to think that at least one of her bad guys might get what's coming to him. Another solid installment in the series.
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but then she does it again, and there is nothing Brunetti can do to stop her arrest and his own administrative leave. But when the owner of the travel agency is found murdered with a note referencing his pedophilia, Vice-Questore Patta assigns Brunetti to the case. As usual, Brunetti focuses on learning as much about the victim and his associates as possible, eventually leading him to look into the various businesses and business associates that might have had a motive for murder.This was quite a well-paced book, and finally there was a hint that perhaps the guilty party may receive true justice. So many of Leon's books end with a sort of shrug toward the corrupt Italian legal system, so it's satisfying to think that at least one of her bad guys might get what's coming to him. Another solid installment in the series.
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LibraryThing member nanaval
Another must read by a favorite author .
LibraryThing member thornton37814
Brunetti finds his own wife in police custody after she admits to having committed an act of civil disobedience in protest of a travel agency that operates sex tours to Asian countries. It isn't long before someone involved with that travel agency is found dead. Brunetti must work through all
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possibilities to find the person responsible. There's plenty of action to keep the reader engaged. The uncertainties created by his wife's acts add elements of tension. A solid installment in the series. Show Less
LibraryThing member cyderry
In this 8th installment of the Brunetti series, Guido's wife Paola throws a rock not once but twice through the window of a travel agency that specializes in sex tours as an act of civil disobedience. This results in Guido's being placed on administrative leave.
When the owner of the agency turns
This book, not one of Leon's best IMO, was still a great read if just for the characters and their interactions.
When the owner of the agency turns
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up dead (fortunately Guido and Paola were together when the murder occurred) Guido is called back in to investigateThis book, not one of Leon's best IMO, was still a great read if just for the characters and their interactions.
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LibraryThing member sianpr
Brunetti's wife takes direct action & Brunetti is left baffled. Another solid instalment in the Brunetti series, with its usual social commentary.
LibraryThing member auntieknickers
This Commissario Brunetti novel starts out as though it's going to be about one sort of crime and corruption and turns out to be about something else entirely. It all begins when Brunetti gets a middle-of-the-night phone call. His wife, the aristocratic English lit professor Paola, has admitted
A convoluted investigation, further complicated by the murder of the agency owner in what looks like a Mafia hit but seems to be tied to the sex-tour protest, leads to an entirely new set of shocking revelations. Through it all, despite adverse publicity and some serious disagreements about the necessity of obeying the law, Brunetti and Paola's love story continues. (It's fairly obvious even if I didn't know, that these books are written by a woman!)
I found the ending of this book more satisfying than those in some of Leon's books, so it probably won't be long before I pick up the next in the series.
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tossing a rock through the window of a travel agency that books sex tours to Southeast Asia. Friendly police officers let her go the first time, but when she repeats the act, his superiors find out. But why is the agency's owner so eager to settle out of court?A convoluted investigation, further complicated by the murder of the agency owner in what looks like a Mafia hit but seems to be tied to the sex-tour protest, leads to an entirely new set of shocking revelations. Through it all, despite adverse publicity and some serious disagreements about the necessity of obeying the law, Brunetti and Paola's love story continues. (It's fairly obvious even if I didn't know, that these books are written by a woman!)
I found the ending of this book more satisfying than those in some of Leon's books, so it probably won't be long before I pick up the next in the series.
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LibraryThing member ecw0647
Even though it’s fun reading mindless mysteries, it’s always satisfying to find ones that have some kind of moral dilemma at their core that the hero must resolve. I had never read Donna Leon, who has taught for the University of Maryland in Venice, Italy for many years, but she weaves just
Brunetti is called out of bed one night to come to the station. His wife has been arrested for throwing a rock through the window of a travel agency. Apparently, this agency organized sex tours to Thailand and the Far East for Italian men, and Brunetti’s wife, Paola, thought something should be done about it. Despite Brunetti’s argument that the agency’s activities are not illegal, she refuses to compromise, and when word gets out to the press that a police official’s wife has been arrested, his career is put in jeopardy. Worse is to come when the owner of the travel agency is found strangled and the ripples caused by Paola’s rock arrive at unexpected beaches.
An important clue to Brunetti’s ultimate resolution of the investigation is that the finances of the murdered man were completely above board and untainted by schemes to avoid taxes. One policeman even remarks that cheating on one’s taxes was justification for almost any crime. No jury would convict if the defendant simply stated he had committed the crime to avoid taxes. Brunetti soon uncovers a scheme that involves the purchase and resale of outdated medicines that are transshipped to Africa and then to poor countries after having been sold to international aid agencies. Paola’s rock inadvertently provided the cover for a killing that was already foreordained.
Brunetti has to suffer through the typical administrivia, and in one delightful little game invented by a colleague, they manage to make it through the myriad administrative instructional lectures. Before each lecture the participants decide on a list of common buzzwords they know they’ll hear during the speech. Each person then picks a list of five of the words they believe will come up the most often. During the lecture, they place a coin on their card each time the word is heard and the person accumulating the most coins on his/her sheet wins all the coins of all the players. In one amusing scene, one of Brunetti’s friends asks a question in such a way as to elicit an answer that will supply several of the words she needs and wins the round.
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such conundra into her police procedurals starring Commissario Brunetti of the Venice police department.Brunetti is called out of bed one night to come to the station. His wife has been arrested for throwing a rock through the window of a travel agency. Apparently, this agency organized sex tours to Thailand and the Far East for Italian men, and Brunetti’s wife, Paola, thought something should be done about it. Despite Brunetti’s argument that the agency’s activities are not illegal, she refuses to compromise, and when word gets out to the press that a police official’s wife has been arrested, his career is put in jeopardy. Worse is to come when the owner of the travel agency is found strangled and the ripples caused by Paola’s rock arrive at unexpected beaches.
An important clue to Brunetti’s ultimate resolution of the investigation is that the finances of the murdered man were completely above board and untainted by schemes to avoid taxes. One policeman even remarks that cheating on one’s taxes was justification for almost any crime. No jury would convict if the defendant simply stated he had committed the crime to avoid taxes. Brunetti soon uncovers a scheme that involves the purchase and resale of outdated medicines that are transshipped to Africa and then to poor countries after having been sold to international aid agencies. Paola’s rock inadvertently provided the cover for a killing that was already foreordained.
Brunetti has to suffer through the typical administrivia, and in one delightful little game invented by a colleague, they manage to make it through the myriad administrative instructional lectures. Before each lecture the participants decide on a list of common buzzwords they know they’ll hear during the speech. Each person then picks a list of five of the words they believe will come up the most often. During the lecture, they place a coin on their card each time the word is heard and the person accumulating the most coins on his/her sheet wins all the coins of all the players. In one amusing scene, one of Brunetti’s friends asks a question in such a way as to elicit an answer that will supply several of the words she needs and wins the round.
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LibraryThing member reader68
A Commissario Guido Brunetti murder mystery pub. in 1999. Brunetti's wife throws rock through the window of a travel agency which arranges sex tours for men to the Far East (Thailand). License holder of the agency is murdered: all to do with selling out-of-date etc. meds to third world countries.
LibraryThing member smik
University lecturer Paola, Commissario Brunetti's wife, is a person of strong convictions. When she throws a rock through the front window of a Venetian travel agency in the middle of the night, not once but twice, because it arranges sex tours to Thailand, she gets not only herself into trouble
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but Brunetti as well. The owner of the travel agency's premises, who is also the owner of a pharmaceutical company, seems inordinately interested in having the matter hushed up, at the same time as making Paola pay damages. Brunetti's boss Vice-Questore Patta sends Brunetti home on "administrative leave" until the matters are resolved. And then the owner, Mitri, is discovered murdered, garrotted, and Brunetti is summoned back to work. Once again Leon has chosen, in this #8 in her 17 Brunetti titles, to not only provide the reader with a series of puzzles, but to highlight an issue of international concern, placing Venice on an international stage. Brunetti and Paola are wonderful characters as is Signora Elettra, Patta's secretary and computer sleuth. Show Less
LibraryThing member cbl_tn
Commissario Brunetti is not prepared for the phone call that leads to his discovery that his beloved Paola has taken to crime. Her desire to put a stop to the sex tourism industry led her to throw a stone through the window of a local travel agency that arranged for these tours. Before the
The series seemed to hit its stride again with this book. The investigation of the crime was more satisfactory than that in the previous book in the series. Paola’s vandalism and the motive behind it provided a means to explore the relationship between Guido and Paola. The investigation took an unexpected turn, and the murder was wrapped up more satisfactorily than is typical for the series. The series shows no sign yet of growing stale.
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building’s owner could decide whether he wanted to press charges, he was murdered. Did Paola’s actions motivate the murder, or was there another reason that someone might have wanted to kill Dottor Mitri?The series seemed to hit its stride again with this book. The investigation of the crime was more satisfactory than that in the previous book in the series. Paola’s vandalism and the motive behind it provided a means to explore the relationship between Guido and Paola. The investigation took an unexpected turn, and the murder was wrapped up more satisfactorily than is typical for the series. The series shows no sign yet of growing stale.
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LibraryThing member crazeedi73
Very good. I love the Venetian setting.
LibraryThing member sleahey
Paola Brunetti, frustrated by the lack of any legal recourse, decides to take matters into her own hands to protest a local travel agency's tours to third world countries for the purpose of connecting tourists with child prostitutes. She throws a rock through a travel agency's windows, setting
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discord in motion between her and Guido. Shortly thereafter, the owner of the agency is murdered, causing Paola to assume that her actions precipitated the murder. Show Less
LibraryThing member waldhaus1
I am tempted to think of this book as a particularly personal statement by the author. As a woman writing about a man, pretending to represent the mind of a very clever man, she calls on some issues important to her as a woman, even using Paola to make the point that a man can never really
That segues into a very cleverly plotted murder, with even more cleverness in Brunetti's solving of the murder.
The book ends with a reflection on the ongoing conflict between good and evil. The most personal of her books I have read so far and also a very good story.
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understand a woman's feelings about sex trafficking. That segues into a very cleverly plotted murder, with even more cleverness in Brunetti's solving of the murder.
The book ends with a reflection on the ongoing conflict between good and evil. The most personal of her books I have read so far and also a very good story.
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LibraryThing member jetangen4571
law-enforcement, murder, murder-investigation, protests, Venice, greed, trafficking*****
Have to admit that I don't really comprehend the need for an individual alone to make protest against a social evil as I've always worked in conjunction with others even if I had to gather them. But it makes for
Narrator David Colacci has the trick of using American standard Italian and Sicilian accents to differentiate the multiple male characters down to a science.
Have to admit that I don't really comprehend the need for an individual alone to make protest against a social evil as I've always worked in conjunction with others even if I had to gather them. But it makes for
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a good background to the statement of social evil as well as Brunetti's test of beliefs. And the murder investigation was good, too.Narrator David Colacci has the trick of using American standard Italian and Sicilian accents to differentiate the multiple male characters down to a science.
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LibraryThing member ChazziFrazz
Vandalism is the first crime in this book. In the early dawn hours, the window of a travel agency is shattered by a large rock, thrown by a woman. Brunetti is called to the Questura. His wife has been arrested. He is shocked and angry and worried about what could happen to his job, his wife and
Brunetti is also working on a bank robbery, where the witness who originally identified the robber suddenly can’t remember anything when his wife is found dead at the foot of their stairs. Accident or murder and a possible warning to the witness?
A third case comes up involving drugs, foreign travel for sex and a suspicious murder. Could it be connected to the other two?
Brunetti uses his patience and thoroughness in his investigations, but dealing with his wife’s actions gives him that much more pressure to solve his cases.
I still enjoy this series and the various characters who are regulars.
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family.Brunetti is also working on a bank robbery, where the witness who originally identified the robber suddenly can’t remember anything when his wife is found dead at the foot of their stairs. Accident or murder and a possible warning to the witness?
A third case comes up involving drugs, foreign travel for sex and a suspicious murder. Could it be connected to the other two?
Brunetti uses his patience and thoroughness in his investigations, but dealing with his wife’s actions gives him that much more pressure to solve his cases.
I still enjoy this series and the various characters who are regulars.
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LibraryThing member AnnieMod
It all starts with Paola Brunetti throwing a rock at a shop window and shattering it in the middle of the night. She has her own reasons but vandalism is never an answer - even when your husband is a police commissario and your father is a Count. When the man who owns the window is killed,
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seemingly because of her actions and accusations, things change even for Paola - her plan was never to cause real harm - she was just trying to highlight the problem of sex-tourism (thus the shop window of the agency being broken). So Guido Brunetti and Count Falier use their separate powers and influences to try to find out what really happened - and to shied and protect Paola. By the end of the novel the rift between the spouses is closed and Brunetti finds the truth about the dead man but the novel makes one think seriously about choices and consequences. Show Less
LibraryThing member diana.hauser
Fatal Remedies is Book #8 in Donna Leon’s award-winning Commissario Guido Brunetti series.
Italy and especially the city of Venice take center stage.
“In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the
This title is an excellent addition to the series.
****
Italy and especially the city of Venice take center stage.
“In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the
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culprit is someone from his own family”This title is an excellent addition to the series.
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LibraryThing member Denise701
I love all her books. I was quite intrigued by the notion that there are some companies out there selling expired medicines in third world countries (not so far fetched to me). Also, I was interested in the discussion between Paola and Guido about the sex tours. Paola actually became even more of a
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LibraryThing member francescadefreitas
Again, Venice is beautifully rendered, but in this novel, it is the involvement of Brunetti's wife in a crime that adds a poignant sense to the story.
LibraryThing member almin
The setup for the mystery was weak, made Paola seem silly and childish, and would Brunetti have been assigned the case in which his wife was suspected to have some involvement? I wouldn't think so....still love the series, this wasn't a favorite.
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Donna Leon kokettiert mit politischer Unkorrektheit, ist jedoch schlichtweg erzreaktionär. In einer Welt des Sittenzerfalls erscheint die Familienzellwand bei ihr als einziger Schutzwall gegen all den brodelnden Unflat. Im Schoße seiner Lieben kann der Patriarch noch in aller Ruhe auf dem Sofa
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liegen, in den knorrigen römischen Moralisten schmökern, während ihm die Frau das Essen auf den immer sanfter atmenden Brustkorb stellt...
Richtig kämpferisch wird Donna Leon nur bei Konsensthemen. Doch daß Kinderprostitution des Teufels ist, wird wohl vom Kreisvorsitzenden der PDS Chemnitz bis hin zum päpstlichen Gesandten in Laos niemand zu bestreiten wagen...
Ebenso herkömmlich wie Donna Leons Weltsicht ist ihre Erzählkunst. "In Sachen Signora Brunetti" ist ein hieb- und stichfest heruntergeschriebener italienischer Krimistiefel. In Donna Leons Prosawerkstatt muß ein leicht vergilbter Meisterbrief der venezianischen Erzählhandwerkskammer hängen. Show Less
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Original language
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9781846571107
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5.63 inches