To settle it, he opened one of the books of poetry at random and read the first line of the first poem his eye fell upon. At the time, Brunetti had suspected this would not suffice, and eventually it had not: the time had come for The Cull.

Gracias a su prosa descriptiva, Leon captura con pasmosa facilidad el pulso y el ritmo de Venecia, pero no de la Venecia atestada por hordas de turistas, si no de la Venecia real, la de aquellos que viven allí, siendo los momentos más memorables esos pequeños detalles del día a día, esas interacciones en apariencia irrelevantes, pero que permiten crear una atmósfera de un lugar que, aunque no cambia en su superficie, bajo esta se encuentra en continuo cambio.When he saw Brunetti, the Ispettore leaned forward and opened the back door of the cab, then went round and got in on the other side. Instead of offering his hand to the men, Danieli waved it towards the chairs in front of his desk and waited until they were seated before he sat down again. And as the story settles into the investigation of a recognisable crime, he gathers those police officers close to him (characters well known to regular readers) and, between coffees, they ruminate on possible motives and root around to discover information that might lead them to a suspect.

There is no better literary tour guide to Venice and the surrounding landscape than Leon and each entry in this series provides complex, memorable characters and storylines that touch the moral center of the human spirit. I was so confused that I went back about 20 pages and reread the story, trying to figure out what was happening. El misterio sirve de excusa para echar un vistazo a la historia política reciente de Italia, desde una perspectiva más personal, mostrando el idealismo de la juventud y la naturaleza problemática inherente al mismo. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The annual release of the latest Donna Leon mystery featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti is always a treat I relish.The good news is that she ages him – so there is a sense of realness about her characters, which makes him and others believable. But eventually his natural curiosity takes over and he decides to help the inquiry, and his knowledge of the local community is vital in catching the killer. Danieli closed the file – which Brunetti noticed contained no more than a single page – and said, ‘I’ve heard conflicting stories about what happened. The book is beautifully measured from start to finish with laser focus on seeing the truth from deception. It is a surprise to Brunetti just how little was known about this man-child – there are no official records to show he even existed.

It is perhaps unusual to begin a tale of murder with a reminder to the reader of the rules governing conditional sentences in a language that is incontrovertibly dead. SO SHALL YOU REAP is authentic throughout and lives up to the lofty reputation Donna Leon has rightly earned for this series that never fails to enlighten with each successive mystery tale. Markham, a Shetlander visiting his parents, was apparently working on a story for a national newspaper – maybe about the development of renewable energy proposed for Shetland, or maybe his reason was more personal? At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman.Once a passionate horse rider, Manuela, now aged thirty, cannot remember the accident, or her beloved horse, and lives trapped in an eternal youth.

Unless they filmed it on their phones and could boast about that, few people were willing to say they had witnessed a crime, reluctant to be caught up in the slow-grinding maw of the justice system. Bert’s son Aaron thinks his mother, Verity, killed Bert, who has a very shady past, with plenty of affairs with other women. This is the most disappointing of the 32 books, for me, but many others sincerely enjoyed it, so it may just have been the mood I was in while reading, and perhaps I'm too critical. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. He started to give his name, but a voice he recognized as Vianello’s spoke over his, asking, ‘Guido, can you meet me at Piazzale Roma?Guido patiently talks to the man’s employer and the neighbours, but he is still mystified as to why someone would want to kill him.