Product Description

Donna Leon’s multitude of fans around the world has grown with each new Commissario Brunetti novel, and now mystery lovers in the United States can enjoy another compelling episode. In Fatal Remedies, Brunetti’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his family’s innocence before it’s too late?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20699 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
“One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever”
—The Washington Post

“No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leon’s Brunetti.”
—Time

“[Brunetti’s] humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.”
— The New York Times Book Review

“The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.”
—The Wall Street Journal

About the Author
Donna Leon has received both the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction and the German Corrine Prize for her novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Customer Reviews

Social Relevance
One of the joys of reading Dona Leon's Venetian mysteries is the social relevance of her stories. It doesn't give away anything to say that in this novel she tackels the heinous practice of some travel agents - illegal in this country, I think - of packaging tours to Asian countries for the purpose of providing wealthy men with greatly underage prostitutes; part of the world wide abuse of children. The practice continues in much of the so called "first world."
Additionally, Leon provides another lovely tour of Venice and its surrounds and a glimpse into Italian culture in a way that tourists seldom see.
A great read!

Donna Leon does it again in Fatal Remedies
She has me so hooked with her writings. I have the list and check off the ones I read so I am not constantly re reading her mysteries. I really enjoy each one but this one was a new twist on her story writing. She does not start out with the Commissario but instead his wife ! I enjoyed the twist and turns in her story line. It's not heavy reading and keeps me interested. And I love love love reading about my adopted city of Venice.

A Husband and Wife in Crisis
For the first time Donna Leon brings both Brunetti and his wife Paola into the body of the story at the same time. Dottoria Paola (the future Contessa) has always been determined and headstrong (a barely covered stand in for Leon). She has her own mind and is not afraid to express it. In this case it has to do with the sending of Italian men on 'sex vacations' to Asia, where they have sex with young girls and boys.

Leon does a fine job in tying it into a murder that Guido is working on without doing any silly gyrations. The flow of the story intertwines the two plots but with a deft and subtle hand and it never feels like Leon has added something to 'jigger' the story. All in all a fine addition to a well written series.