Fatal Remedies: (Brunetti 8) - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099269309 ISBN 13: 9780099269304

Publisher: Arrow Books, 2000

Synopsis

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Review:

In this eighth Donna Leon police procedural set in Venice, honest cop Brunetti finds himself, for once, bending the rules severely. His wife, Paola, has been arrested for vandalism and malicious damage. She has, of course, acted out of the highest of motives--the tourist agency whose windows she smashed specialises in trips for unaccompanied men to the Far East. But just how far is it legitimate to go when faced with something like sex tourism? And how can Brunetti pursue justice with his wife taking the law into her own hands?

This has all of Leon's regular cast of characters--Brunetti's indolent and corrupt superior Patta, only too pleased to use his zealous commissario as a scapegoat, and Paola's somewhat sinister father, Count Falier, one of the men who, for good and ill, run the city of Venice. As always, the plot switchbacks from crime to crime and issue to issue. Leon's endlessly superior capacity for leading her readers up a variety of garden paths has rarely been so clearly on display. Above all, it shows what has been one of the more attractive marriages in modern detective fiction under serious stress for the first time; these have always been detective stories that offered more rewards than those of crime and punishment and this one is no exception.--Roz Kaveney

Review:

"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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099269309
• ISBN 13: 9780099269304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 303