So Shall You Reap

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Even with all of his contradictory qualities, Alvise had still become the mascot, one could even say the beloved mascot, of most of the Questura. I was so confused that I went back about 20 pages and reread the story, trying to figure out what was happening. In this 32nd book in the 'Commissario Guido Brunetti' series, the Italian policeman investigates the murder of an immigrant from Sri Lanka. When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall.

Alvise, perhaps by virtue of his not being taken seriously by his colleagues, did not register fully with them as a person. You’d think this was the Bronx, the way they go crazy anytime someone claims to have been injured while they were being detained. Brunetti, noting that ‘friends’ had been demoted to ‘colleagues’, paused a moment before asking, ‘Can we speak to Alvise first? Fishing is the primary source of income and alongside the inner side of the thin peninsular are scores of vongolari, the clam fishing boats. Issues of misdirected idealism and perverted justice bubble along as the novel builds to its not unexpected conclusion.He turned from the shoes in the window and resumed walking, having calculated the time Vianello’s boat would arrive. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. But when the girl is found stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is no longer Paola’s student, but instead becomes Brunetti’s case. The cases, while always intriguing, are almost secondary to the wonderful characterizations and musings and observations of life, especially Venetian life, by Brunetti. Brunetti and his colleague, Ispettore Lorenzo Vianello, determine that Alvise did nothing wrong and manage to smooth over the incident.

Then, hoping to divert the course of this conversation from wherever the other man was trying to direct it, he added, ‘I like to think those times are over. Una de las grandes bazas de la serie es el análisis en profundidad que realiza de la sociedad veneciana, desde su geografía hasta su cultura, a la vez que hace un íntimo retrato de la vida personal de Brunetti, a quien en esta ocasión conoceremos algo más gracias a esa incursión en sus años de juventud. El misterio se presenta como un elemento con múltiples capas en el que la satisfacción final viene dada no solo porque se resuelve el caso, si no por la forma en que se ha resuelto. Nobody can find him – not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he’d been secretly visiting. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave.In Donna Leon’s latest book, once again we’re in Venice and Guido Brunetti is presented with a challenging situation - an undocumented Sri Lankan, who Brunetti met briefly, is found murdered. Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is not the man he once was, since the death of his fiancée and at first he takes a back seat in the investigations, led by Detective Inspector Willow Reeves (originally from the Hebrides) who is drafted in from the Inverness team to head up the investigation. What is unsettling is that Guido spoke to the man only the day before his death, while trying to do his father-in-law a favour. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and took his 18-month-old son – but why? Brunetti interviews Kavinda's employer Gloria and several of the caretaker's acquaintances, and is told that Kavinda was a gentle man who worked hard and sent money to his wife and children back in Sri Lanka.