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Original Title: | A Noble Radiance |
ISBN: | 0142003190 (ISBN13: 9780142003190) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Commissario Brunetti #7 |
Characters: | Commissario Guido Brunetti |
Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
Donna Leon
Paperback | Pages: 277 pages Rating: 3.97 | 6663 Users | 427 Reviews
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Title | : | A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti #7) |
Author | : | Donna Leon |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 1998) |
Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Cultural. Italy. Fiction |
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Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue.In A Noble Radiance a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.
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This quote sums up the Guido Brunetti series for me:Ambiguity might well be said to be the defining characteristic of Italian justice orthat concept being elusiveof the system of justice which the Italian state has created for the protection of its citizens.This book pretty much puts the details in place to support that idea.First Sentence: There was nothing much to notice about the field, a hundred-metre square of dry grass below a small village in the foothills of the Dolomites.On the recently purchased property of a doctor near the Italian Dolomites is found the much decomposed body of a young man. Near it is a ring bearing the crest of the Lorenzonis, one of Italys most aristocratic families, whose son had been abducted two years ago. Comm. Guido Brunetti reviews the file and decides to unofficially
This is an early Donna Leon and has all the hallmarks of her early work: the politics of the police workplace, references to the wider challenges of Italian politics and bureaucracy and descriptions of charmingly decrepit Venice. Then there are the familiar characters and the home life of Guido Brunetti to add a warm and human touch to the darker world of murder investigations. In this story, the body of a young man who was kidnapped some years earlier is found. The plot has all the requisite
To begin with, I have to confess that I love Venice. So any story that takes place there is likely to please me. Also, I love a good whodunit. Nothing's better for curling up with and relaxing. Still, Donna Leon's stories have something special. Maybe it's her detective, Commissario Brunetti. He's an extremely wise and cool person. A murder mystery's effectiveness depends on the personality of the detective, and Brunetti is extremely simpatico. Maybe it's the way her
An early book and I appreciated how she was building the relationships and the character. She did a lot more telling than I like than showing.
This is #7 in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti series. For me, they just keep getting better and better all the time. In this book, Brunetti finds resolution to a kidnapping that happened two years previously. He digs into the past and present of a well known Venice family, making his usual intimate disturbances along the way so that he find justice for the long dead Roberto.Another Goodreads member reviewed this book, saying that many people who read Donna Leon find her books slow paced and
Commissario Brunetti investigates a body discovered by a farmer plowing his field. A ring bearing the Lorenzoni family's crest suggests the corpse's identity as the son and heir who disappeared more than a year ago. Dental records confirm the conclusion. Several things suggest the crime's responsibility lay in a family member's hands. While there's nothing really wrong with the mystery, it lacks the depth of earlier installments and misses the opportunity to showcase Venice. The case was just
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