Win Morte Numa Terra Estranha (Commissario Brunetti, #2) Designed By Donna Leon Presented In Ebook

continue to be an enormous fan of the Commisario Brunetti series, For those of you who may have missed my earlier reviews, Donna Leon teaches English for the University of Maryland Extension near Venice and has lived in Italy for many years.
She portrays the flavor of Italian life vividly, and it's clear that while she must love living there, petty and notsopetty corruption is rampant, She makes delightfully wicked little comments, For example, the Carabineri major, interviewed by Brunetti on an American army post not base, that's for the Air Force waxes on about the characteristics of Americans, They tend to be arrogant, of course, but Americans are really too insecure to be truly arrogant, "unlike the Germans, " Classic.

Brunetti is walking home through "battalions of ravaging tourists who centered their attacks on the area around San Marcos, Each year it grew harder to have patience with them, to put up with their stopandgo walking, with their insistence on walking three abreast through even the narrowest calles.
There were times when he wanted to scream at them, even push them aside, but he contented himself by taking out all of his aggressions through the single expedient of refusing to stop, or in any way alter his course, in order to allow them a photo opportunity.
Because of this, he was sure that his body, back and elbow appeared in hundreds of photos and videos, He sometimes contemplated the disappointed Germans looking at their summer videos during the violence of the North Sea storm as they watched a purposeful, darksuited Italian walk in front of Tante Gerda or an Onkel Franz, blurring, if only for a moment the lederhosenclad tourists" with what was probably the only real Italian they would see during their

stay.


An American soldier, Sgt, Michael Foster, an American public health inspector at the American military hospital in Vicenza, has been found floating in one of the Venetian canals, In an act of true heroism, two policemen jump in the water the water being so dirty, hence the heroism and drag him out, Brunetti's superior would like nothing better than to have the case buried, because the idea of an American being killed in Venice would ruin the tourist trade, Brunetti purposefully manipulates his boss into thinking the murder might have been committed elsewhere must think of tourism, of course so he can be authorized to travel to the man's post and investigate.
An army captain, Dr. Peters, a woman doctor, who had come to Venice to identify the body in the morgue, had vomited from what Brunetti thought was from fear, when she saw how the man had been killed, by a knife plunging directly through the ribs into the heart.
He suspects something is rather odd about this case, especially when he finds some cocaine that was not well hidden in the dead soldier's apartment, apparently after it had been thoroughly searched by the military authorities.
The case becomes more complicated as both he and the Carabinieri major are politely warned off the case after they discover a connection between the dead soldier, a sick boy, contracts for the disposal of toxic waste, Brunetti's fatherinlaw, and the ostensible suicide by heroin overdose of Dr.
Peters, not to mention the theft of some famous paintings from a prominent businessman,

As with many of her other books, you are left at the end deeply saddened by the corruption, the illicit use of power and its effect on Brunetti, who, despite all, struggles on trying to stay an honest cop.
He is a wonderful character, When a death in Venice is no longer the subject of a literary work, but of a murder investigation, Commissario Brunetti's problems begin to mount, The unidentified corpse fished from the canal is not Italian, Bad. The deceased turns out to have been an American, Worse! The American was a member of the U, S. Military. Could things possibly get worse Absolutely!

It says something about efficiency that Brunetti is pulled from a sound sleep two and a half hours before his shift begins.
The dispatcher deflects Brunetti's ire by pointing out no one else is around, Everyone from the night shift has already gone home, Brunetti's second jolt of the morning comes from his superior, ViceQuestore Patta, who confronts him the moment Patta gets in:AM, His nearhysteria reminded me of the mayor in “Jaws, ” “'We can't have Americans being murdered in this city, not with the state of tourism this year, Do you understand that. ' Brunetti fought back the impulse to ask if it would be all right to kill people of other nationalities Albanians, perhaps but, instead, said only 'Yes, sir, '” p.In most cases, Brunetti is able to get on with his work by deflecting his clueless martinet of a boss with equivocal witticisms, In this case this will prove challenging,

This book was published inand opens a window into Italian politics of the time, The mafia and the government were so closely intertwined they were practically interchangeable, as reflected in this passage: Brunetti “ 'mafia, Even up here' Ambrogiani: 'Why not They've got to go somewhere, All they do is kill one another down South, How many murders have there been so far this year Two hundred Two hundred and fifty So they've started moving up here, ' Brunetti: 'The government' Ambrogiani gave the special snort of disgust that Italians reserve for use only when speaking of their government, 'Who can tell them apart anymore, mafia and government'” p,

Tensions with the Americans are also evident, The deceased's base was in nearby Vicenza, a military complex run like a “Little America, ” There, Brunetti is met with cordial smiles and vague, seemingly innocuous lies,

Brunetti's wife Paolo is more of a presence than in many of the later books, Here, she seems to be the woman who can do it all, She is mother to their two children, teaches literature at the nearby university, keeps abreast of politics and social justice, and deals with Brunetti's unpredictable schedule with aplomb.
No reader could hate her, however, Her effortlessly produced dinners are to die for: risotto, wedges of golden polenta, shank of veal roasted with olives and white wine, She is also a crucial link in the story, Her father is Count Orazio, shrewd, discreet and pragmatic, He inhabits a different world, one that Brunetti finds will connect with his case,

I love Donna Leon's mysteries, Moral dilemmas, social problems and engaging characters come alive with her animated prose and inventive dialogues,

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Military bases in Italy sitelink theguardian. com/commentis I truly enjoyed the daily meandering through Venice, the architecture, the food, daily life but just didnt care about the murder, Donna Leon é considerada uma das grandes senhoras do policial contemporâneo e dela a Editorial Presença já publicou Morte no La Fenice, Tendo como personagem principal o detective Guido Brunetti, este segundo romance da autora decorre, à semelhança do primeiro, na fascinante e secreta Veneza, cujos recantos só alguns conhecem.
Mediante a estranha visão da remoção do cadáver de um jovem americano de um fétido canal daquela cidade, Guido Brunetti dedide encetar um investigação de grande perigo que chega a envolver a Máfia e o Exército Americano.
Ao tentar desmascarar uma cabala que envolve a transacção de lixos tóxicos, o irresistível Brunetti acaba por colocar a sua própria vida em risco.
. . Em síntese, mais um livro na linha desta extraordinária renovação do policial, que o situa nos cânones da grande literatura, .