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Fatal Remedies (Commissario Brunetti Book 8) by [Donna Leon]

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The Italian police detective’s latest case hits close to home, in this novel in the New York Times–bestselling series.

For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is someone from his own family.

Meanwhile, Brunetti is under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to a suspicious accidental death. Does it all lead back to the Mafia? And how are his family’s actions connected to these crimes? The truth must be uncovered in this novel in the Silver Dagger Award–winning series by “one of the best of the international crime writers” (Rocky Mountain News).

“Leon’s devoted readers love her books for their juicy mystery plots, and also for the rich and varied cast of recurring characters, among which is the city of Venice itself.” —Publishers Weekly

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December 29, 2009
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<center"Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart." -Paul Skenazy, The Washington Post

"One of the best international crime writers . . . and her tales . . . set in Venice are at the apex of continental thrillers." -Peter Mergendahl, Rocky Mountain News

"Leon's gentle pace allows conversation and atmosphere to develop so full and founded that you can taste the coffee and smell the flowers. . . . You'll want to catch the first plane over there." -Phillipa Stockley, The Washington Post

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Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0042JSMGE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; Reprint edition (December 29, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 29, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8251 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0099536641
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- #531 in International Mystery & Crime (Kindle Store)
- #612 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
- #673 in Organized Crime Thrillers

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A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. Leon has received both the CWA Macallon Silver Dagger for Fiction and the German Corrine Prize for her novels featuring Commisario Guido Brunetti. She lives in Venice.

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I never get tired of this wonderful series

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2020

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Donna Leon is certainly a very prolific writer, and my initial reaction after reading 2-3 of her Commissario Brunetti books was that her tendency to focus more on Guido Brunetti than on the plots might become tiresome after a time, since his character, as interesting as he is, might become too repetitive over time. However, and this book is an excellent example, the plot (a diva opera singer stalked by a fan), is equally dominant in driving the narrative, and that plot line, and infused with the wonderful personality, character traits, family interactions, and diligence of the Commissario never ceases to entertain. Since many of her Brunetti books have been bargain priced (i.e. $1.99 - $3.99) I have stocked many on my kindle, and intersperse them with other downloaded books such that I read about one Brunetti book a month. Very dependable - you can count on an enjoyable read. The Commissario is a very likable character, as are his close associates on the Venetian police force, but his intellect and lifestyle dominates. Love the character, love the writing, enjoy the plots, and love the series.

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GoldenDragonfly

Another Love Affair With Venice.

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

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After his wife throws a rock through a window-to make a political statement-Brunetti is enraged and embarrassed.

Although he doesn’t want her to go to jail, he decides to stay away from it, to teach her a lesson.

Despite his efforts, Paola Brunetti is more than taught a lesson when the owner of the business is murdered in his home.

And though the press hints that his wife may have caused the murder, Brunetti is still the best person to solve this case.

So, up and down the Calles of Venice he travels, pondering, investigating and using his staunchest brain power to find the murderer of Pablo Mitri.

Throughout the story we are given wonderful insight into the minds of the ordinary people of Venice as well as the criminals.

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Thoroughly enjoyable !

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022

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Long time readers of Donna Leon should enjoy her 2009 “Fatal Remedies, ”as it delves into the loving relationship of Guido Brunetti and his teaching wife, Paola, when she commits a crime by breaking a window in a travel agency which promotes sex tours. The story soon moves onto a murder by garotte, as Brunetti travels into the Veneto in his investigation, always relying on the ever-trustworthy, Signorina Elettra, at police headquarters. Brunetti, Leon’s contemplative, philosophical, Iliad reading detective, employs insightful deductive reasoning to ultimately solve the crime through cagey interviews and some revealing tape recordings. As always, Leon paints vivid, humane and colorful portraits of the characters who appear in this enjoyable mystery.

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Gandalf

Donna Leon is a great writer

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2018

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Every one of Donna Leon's novels is worth reading. The characters are well drawn and while the mysteries seem local to Venice, most of the time they touch on some really important global problem such as: white slavery, drugs, repression of women, etc. I recently returned from a trip to Italy. The tour guide said that while Donna Leon is American, every Italian is familiar with her work.

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eclectic reader

A statement as well as a clever mystery

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2020

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I am tempted to think of this book as a particularly personal statement by the author. As a woman writing about a man, pretending to represent the mind of a very clever man, she calls on some issues important to her as a woman, even using Paola to make the point that a man can never really understand a woman's feelings about sex trafficking.
That segues into a very cleverly plotted murder, with even more cleverness in Brunetti's solving of the murder.
The book ends with a reflection on the ongoing conflict between good and evil. The most personal of her books I have read so far and also a very good story.

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Shamim Morani

Dirty Business

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019

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Take and expired medicines are being sold to poor and starving countries. Both of the partners disagree on how the business is being run. Then Brunetti enters to solve all the mysteries turnpike up. The detective work is great ,but the family is quite enchanting and the love that Paola and Brunetti have for each other is beautifully told

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Lincolor

Leon never disappoints

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021

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I love Donna Leon’s Brunetti series and am working my way through it all. After reading a few, you develop a friendship with the Commissario and his family and colleagues. This one includes more involvement of his wife Paola who commits an act of vandalism in protest of a travel agency who organizes sex tours. When the owner of the agency is murdered, Brunetti works to clear her of the crime. Satisfying read!

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RuthG

For me, this book turns a corner

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2022

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Up till now, the law versus justice conflicts between the Commissario and his wife Paola have been mostly theoretical. It's compelling to see them taking on real flesh here. I'll leave it at that!

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One of the angriest Brunetti books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2022

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Paola is seriously angry with the concept of sec tourism to Thailand and displays this in a practical sense. I also get the feeling that this is something the author has strong feelings about and it gives the book a strong level of anger against such a terrible thing. It also shows how Brunetti can believe it's wrong but the law doesn't.
A heartfelt book I think.

Nicholas Casley

"The criminal wife of the Commissario"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2009

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This, the eighth in the Brunetti series, has a genuine shock (well, for me, anyway) at the end of the first chapter: "the cheerful smile on the status of Goldoni seemed wildly out of place." And an even greater shock at the end of the eleventh chapter: Donna Leon sure knows how to jolt the reader who may have become too laid back about Commissario Brunetti and his work.

Without wishing to give too much away, I had noticed how in almost every previous book in this series there had been a short paragraph, or even just a single throwaway line, about child-trafficking or child prostitution. But this volume seems to tackle the topic and trade head-on. But not until chapter 23 (of 28 in total) is the reason for the clever title of the novel made clear. The plot is up to its usual high standards, but would the Venice police really have been so behind the times in 1999 in knowing so little about computers and relying so much on Signorina Elettra?

With references to a Donizetti opera, to the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, to Gibbon - and even to Maximilian Schell - Donna Leon wears well her cultural credentials. And her knowledge of the Italian way of doing things and the Italian point-of-view is also well to the fore. For instance, Brunetti "sometimes believed that a person in Italy could be excused any horror, any enormity, simply by saying that it was done for tax reasons ..." And then, going home to lunch, "Brunetti shrugged. `There are days when I think everything's getting worse, then there are days when I know they are. But then the sun comes out and I change my mind.' " Ah the seductive pleasures of the Venetian lunchtime. Lucky Brunetti! Lucky Donna Leon!

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Gs-trentham

More than just a Mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2010

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This is a brave book by an author taking a step outside the conventions of a Venetian police procedural. Readers looking simply for more murky doings on the Rialto are challenged to ponder deeper issues.

In a spasm of fully justified moral outrage, a crime is committed; on whose side is the upholder of the law? And what if the policeman and the perpetrator are husband and wife? Newcomers to the Brunetti family will find these are credible people wrestling with a dilemma in which both sides are evenly portrayed. Those who have come to empathise with the Brunetti household from earlier books will admire the honesty with which their emotions are explored here.

All this sets up the second half of the book which satisfactorily deals with a related murder and the sturdy police investigation which solves it, but it is the profound issues which will linger in the mind. A notable achievement by an author growing in confidence.

Desdemona

Another great story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2015

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Somehow I managed to miss this book while reading my way through Donna Leon's Venice novels. My gain - it was the perfect holiday read. I love her knowledge of Venice and it's society, organisation, stratas, politics, etc. All her books are so much more than just cops-and-robbers. Brunetti and his maturing family are a delightful background to the series, and all the staff at the Questura can be relied upon to live up to their reputations. The books always have a point to make about some particularly less desirable aspect of life, but they do so with humour and humanity, which is what makes them so special.

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Wyandot Wolf

Good reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2020

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Donna Leon is a very good writer. Her character Inspector Brunetti is interesting and all books read so far have been enjoyable. Looking forward to reading all of her books. Great reads similar to the Maigret, Morse and Brother Cadfael novels i.e. great character writing relaxing reading.

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