Fatal Remedies - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014311705X ISBN 13: 9780143117056

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2009

Synopsis

Donna Leon's multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. 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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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:

One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever
"The Washington Post"
No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leons Brunetti.
"Time"
[Brunettis] humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.
"The New York Times Book Review"
The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.
"The Wall Street Journal"

aOne of the most exquisite and subtle detective series evera
a"The Washington Post"
aNo one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leonas Brunetti.a
a"Time"
a[Brunettias] humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.a
a "The New York Times Book Review"
aThe sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.a
a"The Wall Street Journal"

"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
"The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities."
-The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 014311705X
• ISBN 13: 9780143117056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270