Book review ‘Beastly Thing’: The commissario plumbs corruption
Book review ‘Beastly Thing’: The commissario plumbs corruption
Article from The Seattle Times:
‘Beastly Things: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery’
by Donna Leon
Atlantic Monthly Press, 296 pp., $ 25
“Beastly Things,” Donna Leon’s 21st mystery of her Commissario Guido Brunetti series set in Venice, doesn’t disappoint. All her trademark strengths shine in this swiftly paced, sophisticated tale of greed versus ethics.
Leon is an American who’s made Italy her home for 30 years. So it’s no accident that the changing times, rising prices, tiresome tourists and increasing pollution that trouble her echo and add authority to her characters’ concerns.
This time, the body of a man is found floating in a canal. He has no ID. Because there’s water in his lungs, the medical examiner says the victim was alive when thrown in. But the cause of death is three stab wounds in the back.
Brunetti and his assistant, Inspector Lorenzo Vianello, spend the bulk of the book hunting the corpse’s identity. As in past Leon mysteries, the pair owe a large debt of gratitude to their colleague, Signorina Elettra, a secretary/computer whiz who supplements their leg work with her sometimes less-than-legal electronic forays into the secret lives of the case…………………continues on The Seattle Times
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Few writers could get away with the premise of Anne Tyler’s new novel, The Beginner’s Goodbye: Several months after his wife’s sudden death, a young widower finds her there in the flesh again, examining beets at the farmers market or walking beside him as he strolls around the neighborhood.
It’s a plot that could easily sink into whimsy or sappiness, but Tyler’s light touch avoids both traps.
It helps that her hero is thoroughly ordinary. Aaron Woolcott, 35 when his wife dies, considers himself “unluckier but not unhappier” than other people. A bout with the flu when he was a toddler has left him with a crippled right arm and leg, a speech impediment that’s worse when he’s nervous and a prickly attitude toward anyone who offers him help.
Aaron and his older sister, Nandina, the sole remnants of their family, work at the family publishin…………………continues on Columbus Dispatch
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The Enchanted April (New York Review Books Classics)
A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.
The Enchanted April was a best-seller in both England and the United States, where it was a
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