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Laddar... Earthly Remains (utgåvan 2017)av Donna Leon (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Earthly Remains is written by Donna Leon. The title is #26 in Ms. Leon’s highly acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. The plot begins in an almost idyllic fashion with Guido taking some ‘time off’ from his police duties and spending time on an outer island community surrounded by the sea and nature. He wants to pursue rowing and reading and relaxing. The ending is very different and very sad. Again, a puzzle, a mystery, is dissected and resolved - to a point - but justice and peace for the living is elusive. ***** Earthly remains—a cautionary tale! A young girl has died in hospital. Antonio Ruggieri, aged Forty-two and a lawyer from an influential Venetian family, who gave the girl the pills, has come to the Questura for an interview. He’s slick, assured and speaks disrespectfully about the girl. His assistant Pucetti is angered and makes a move he shouldn’t. Staging a heart attack to stop Pucetti brings about other problems that Brunetti hadn’t considered. Brunetti takes time off and spends it out on the laguna at the end of Sant’Erasmo at a villa of Paola’s Aunt Costanza. Caretaking the house is Davide Casati, a famous rower who rowed with Brunetti’s father. Casati takes Brunetti rowing and shows him his bees out beyond on the laguna. The bees are dying. Not long after this Casati is found, in his boat dead presumably injured when caught in a storm Brunetti investigates. Things are not as they seem, but where is the proof. It seems to me Leon looks at the injustices perpetrated by the powerful and then continued by those who don’t look at the costs with this novel A girl dies. Why? Casati dies. Why? Bees are dying. Why? This last very much defines the story as we look to the past, investigate the now and are fearful for the future! A very different Brunetti tale. Brunetti is internalising things. He’s worn down and much given to philosophising about his beloved Vienna, the nature of man and consequences. I found this Guido Brunetti story looks at who the the man is, and in doing so, we learn more bout our favourite Venetian commissario. A Grove Atlantic ARC via NetGalley. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the never-ending influx of tourists and the suffocating corruption. Through it all, Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti, a good man who loves his family and his city, has been an enduring figure, but in Earthly Remains, Brunetti's endurance is tested more than ever before. During an interrogation, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he quickly comes to regret, and in the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti's wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny's Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan until David Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his leave of absence and understand what happened to the man who had become his friend"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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His new friend dies in a storm. A horrible accident? Suicide? Murder. The answer lies in one of the themes that Leon often promotes in her books- potential environmental disaster, and political corruption. I can say no more. Just read this book, and find out for yourself. ( )