
Guido Brunetti, Book 8
by Donna Leon
Reading this feels like walking the early-morning streets of Venice: unhurried, atmospheric, and attentive to household consequences more than chase scenes. Donna Leon’s prose is plain and steady, and the novel’s best value is its moral intimacy—the sudden, domestic vandalism forces Brunetti to juggle law, marriage and public duty in a way that deepens character and setting. The main limitation is pace and repetition: readers hungry for forensic detail or twist-driven momentum will find long stretches of social detail, domestic argument, and reflective digression slow and occasionally tedious.
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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...
Difficulty:hard
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