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Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime. Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, Death in a Strange Country is a superb novel in Donna Leon's chilling Venetian mystery series.… (més)
muumi: Howard Engel and Donna Leon have each written a book in the extremely specialized sub-genre of murder mysteries involving illegal toxic waste disposal (are there more than two books in the genre?). Engel's is written in 1990, only three years before Donna Leon's: the same era. Toxic waste was an unfamiliar concept. The protagonists each need to buy a book or two and explain the problem to us readers. Engel is Canadian as is his protagonist, and there's a lot less subtlety than with Leon's Brunetti. The books couldn't be more different in setting and characters (Niagara Peninsula of Ontario vs. Venice and Vicenza, Italy) but it's quite interesting, historically and culturally, to see the dawning of awareness about some of the issues surrounding industrial waste disposal in Canada and Italy.… (més)
Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon is a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, Book #2. There is very good plotting and excellent characters. Guido’s walks are very atmospheric. Again, the city of Venice is one of the main characters in the series. I find the corruption, the dishonesty and the greed very sad and frustrating. Some parts of this book were hard to read. But a very good addition to this long-running series. **** ( )
So refreshingly different from serial killer crime novels with their gratuitous violence and over reliance on forensics to solve the crime....although I do wonder whether the Italian police are really so relaxed in their approach to crime solving as Ms Leon portrays.... ( )
A body found floating in a Venetian canal turns out to be an American military doctor. It looks like a mugging gone wrong but Commissario Brunetti is not convinced.
It's rather darker than the previous book, with a despairing ending, nothing having really changed despite four deaths. ( )
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Volgi intorno lo sguardo, o sire, e vedi qual strage orrenda nel tuo nobil regno, fa il crudo mostro. Ah mira allagate di sangue quelle pubbliche vie. Ad ogni passo vedrai chi geme, e l'alma gonfia d'atro velen dal corpo esala. Gaze around you, oh sire, and see that terrible destruction the cruel monster has wrought in your noble kingdom. Look at the streets swamped in blood. At every step you see someone groaning, the spirit leaving a corpse swollen with horrible poison. --Mozart, Idomeneo
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The body floated facedown in the murky water of the canal.
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Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime. Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, Death in a Strange Country is a superb novel in Donna Leon's chilling Venetian mystery series.
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There is very good plotting and excellent characters. Guido’s walks are very atmospheric.
Again, the city of Venice is one of the main characters in the series.
I find the corruption, the dishonesty and the greed very sad and frustrating. Some parts of this book were hard to read. But a very good addition to this long-running series. **** (