Author: Donna Leon
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Mystery, Fiction
Culture: Italy
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9780802129116
0802129110 |
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"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?," his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo RodrÃguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and one of his friends just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room--having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder--a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction.
Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.
This book is part of the "Commissario Brunetti" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Falling in Love"
First published in 2015
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 | "By Its Cover"
First published in 2014
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 | "The Golden Egg"
First published in 2013
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 | "Beastly Things"
First published in 2012
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 | "Drawing Conclusions"
First published in 2011
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 | "A Question of Belief"
First published in 2010
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 | "Blood from a Stone"
First published in 2005
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 | "Doctored Evidence"
First published in 2004
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 | "Uniform Justice"
First published in 2003
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 | "Wilful Behaviour"
First published in 2002
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 | "A Sea of Troubles"
First published in 2001
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 | "Fatal Remedies"
First published in 1999
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 | "A Noble Radiance"
First published in 1998
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 | "Acqua Alta"
First published in 1996
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 | "A Venetian Reckoning"
First published in 1995
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 | "Death at La Fenice"
First published in 1992
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| "About Face"
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