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| Title | : | Fatal Remedies (Commissario Brunetti #8) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 303 pages |
| Published | : | March 2nd 2000 by Arrow (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Cultural. Italy. Fiction |
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A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under increasing pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious death and his superiors need quick results. As his professional and personal lives clash, Brunetti's own career is under threat - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink ...
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| Original Title: | Fatal Remedies |
| ISBN: | 0099269309 (ISBN13: 9780099269304) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #8 |
| Characters: | Commissario Guido Brunetti, Vice-Questore Patta, Ispettore Vianello, Paola Brunetti, Paolo Mitri, Giuliano Zambino, Count Orazio Falier, Signorina Elettra, Signor Dorandi, Sandro Bonaventura |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
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Paola Brunetti is a woman who feels injustice keenly. Particularly when that injustice is dealt to innocent children. She has recently become aware that travel agencies in her own city of Venice are selling sex tours to Southeast Asia. These sex tours offer children as their objects. Children are being raped for the pleasure of sick, rich men. Paola feels a compulsion to act.The travel agencies are not technically breaking any Venetian or Italian law; their transgression is against morality.Brunetti is called into the station to find that his wife has been arrested for an act of vandalism. He manages to smoothe things over, but Paola is determined to do something about travel agencies facilitating sex tourism and vows to keep vandalising their premises until her actions have an effect - much to Brunetti's dismay, who finds himself in serious trouble at work and besieged by the press when the story is leaked to them as Paola breaks another agency's shop window. Then the owner of one
* Spoilers below *Well, that was disappointing! This starts off as one of the 'issues' books - Paola commits an act of civil disobedience which places Brunetti in an awkward position as she is carted off, not once but twice, to the Questura by his subordinates. The question of protest feels particularly topical with Extinction Rebellion taking place as I write and debates about when it is morally right to break the law: after all, much necessary social change has been brought about by
3.5 stars. I enjoy this series!
I chose this book rather at random, as a piece of convalescence reading and a test of whether Amazon Primes free library had anything worth exploring. The Venetian setting was the main draw for me, and Donna Leons reputation as an established old pro.Its an amiable enough crime novel, and I enjoyed the evocation of Venice and its light-industrial mainland hinterland, but it struck me mainly for a rather unexpected reason. It is set in 1999, at a transitional moment in terms of technology, when
Donna Leon has done it again.... another amazing Commisario Brunetti mystery to savor. I have read many in this series over the years and as usual found I could get right back into the characters' lives both personal and professional, all through the eyes of Brunetti. It is such a pleasure following his analytical mind when he is solving a case. In this book his wife Paola started the action when she became enraged that certain travel agencies were arranging tours to certain countries where men
Favourite of the series so far!
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