Drawing Conclusions: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery - Rilegato

Leon, Donna

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ISBN 10: 0802119794 ISBN 13: 9780802119797

Casa editrice: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2011

Riassunto

With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious dead of a Venetian widow. By the author of About Face.

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Praise for Drawing Conclusions

Donna Leon’s 20th Venetian mystery featuring her compassionate police detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, epitomizes what we treasure most about this series: a feeling for the life of a sublimely beautiful city and a sensitivity to the forces that are reshaping it. Not to mention the pleasure of being in Brunetti’s company when this shrewd but scrupulously honest man is having a crisis of ethics at the flower market or trying to pry information from a hostile nun.” Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times

"If you read only one mystery this year, make it this one.” Library Journal (starred review)

Leon’s twentieth novel starring Venetian police Commissario Guido Brunetti is one of her best. When [Brunetti] muses, the reader listens almost hypnotically, transfixed by the somehow ennobling ordinariness of this remarkable man’s humanity but also by the subtlety of his mind and his absolute refusal to succumb to the tyranny of bureaucrats and moralists. Leon’s popularity among mystery fans has grown steadily, but over the last several years, she has become a must-read for all those who favor character-driven crime stories.” Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)

There is always doubt mixed with anticipation before diving into the latest in a favorite mystery series. The uncertainty is always there -- will it deliver the same fascination as previous books? Or will it disappoint? The compelling characters and complex plot in Leon's Drawing Conclusions place it among her best. The atmosphere of the city, along with Leon's sharp insights and powerful narrative, validate her often-recognized status as a master of literary crime fiction.” Merle Minda, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Leon’s fine 20th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery explores violence against women and the treatment of the elderly. Leon provides a vivid view of Venice, balancing the city’s glory days’ with the reality of the flaking dandruff of sun-blasted paint peeling from shutters.’ Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn’t always end in an arrest or a trial.” Publishers Weekly

Hard to believe but let’s be grateful that Commissario Guido Brunetti is on his 20th case . Essential for mystery collections.” Library Journal

As languid in its movement as a gondola ride. Yet none of Brunetti’s earlier cases is as remorselessly clear in connecting the delicately comic anti-authoritarian gestures Brunetti winks at to the miasma of corruption that hangs over his beloved Venice.” Kirkus Reviews

By now, with the arrival of Donna Leon’s 20th Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, the Venetian police commissioner seems almost as much an institution as the city’s venerable buildings. In an age of diminished civic and religious authority, the commissario as his investigation proceeds must make Jesuitical decisions of his own about guilt and innocence, punishment and absolution. In this finely written account, he comes down (as we know he will) on the side of the angels.” The Wall Street Journal

Remarkably, for a long-running series, Leon’s characters are more interesting now than they were 18 years ago. Even more remarkably, Leon’s own skills, honed over so many books, have grown and matured, and that makes this most recent novel her best book so far.” Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

L'autore:

Donna Leon is the author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon was born in New Jersey and has lived in Venice for thirty years.

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• Editore: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802119794
• ISBN 13: 9780802119797
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260