While he waited for someone to answer, he waved his hand around the room and said, ‘You can talk to him here. Not the train drivers, not the remaining No-Vax, not the workers at Marghera – who seemed in a perpetual state of protest – and not medical professionals, who had protested two weeks before. And, yes, Leon discusses larger social and other issues, but (I think) without letting that agenda take over the story. We learn more about both Brunetti and Vionello as they reveal their own youthful thoughts and actions. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would beco

The police investigation doesn’t happen and the chief brings in some connection to the characters through a new algorithm that she acquired in a conference and then the case gets solved. To help his father in law, Guido visits the Palazzo Zaffo dei Leoni in an effort to discover whether the rumours it is for sale are true, where he meets a Sri Lankan man living in the garden house in the grounds. But he had also disarmed a man who was threatening his wife with a kitchen knife and had once prevented a fight in a restaurant when a client, seemingly displeased with his dinner, had thrown a plate of pasta at the waiter and turned over the table where he sat.On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill, the 17th Dalziel and Pascoe novel, a complex book, that begins with a transcript written by Betsy Allgood, then aged seven, telling what had happened in the little village of Dendale in Yorkshire before the valley was flooded to provide a reservoir. His body is found in the canal and there are no immediate suspects or motives for this apparently senseless murder. Alvise, perhaps by virtue of his not being taken seriously by his colleagues, did not register fully with them as a person. The topic this week is Water ( This can be covers with water on them, books with bodies of water in them, titles with bodies of water in them, etc. As with every Brunetti novel there are themes, concerns and history running through it, Leon turns her eye to Italy's modern past, the 1970's when the Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state using violence as a weapon against those who they viewed against them.

I say this every time I read a Brunetti novel they are hidden treasures in the genre of crime fiction. Guido Brunetti, Commissario of Police in Venice, Italy, is the star of Donna Leon’s hugely successful Commissario Brunetti mystery series. The rude, sneery and prejudiced way the two policemen spoke about demonstrators against Gay pride and "anti -vax" rallies was nearly a book refund moment.

Despite the rain and cold, Brunetti chose to walk: the vaporetti would be overheated and crowded in weather like this. Days before he’d enquired for his father-in-law if the rumour was true that the palazzo was for sale, a hidden palazzo with its abandoned gardens. Then, hoping to divert the course of this conversation from wherever the other man was trying to direct it, he added, ‘I like to think those times are over.

Making him seem even less like himself was the dark red bruise that was gathering on his left cheek and the large bloodied bandage on his forehead that covered most, but not all, of what looked like a graze wound, as though his face had been dragged along a rough surface. In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades.Brunetti and his colleague, Ispettore Lorenzo Vianello, determine that Alvise did nothing wrong and manage to smooth over the incident. As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers.

However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn and soon Brunetti finds himself submerged in the dark secrets of the black market of antiquarian books. And before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling and apparently senseless death. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. When Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. It may be her age (I believe she is 80 this year) but also the fact that the pandemic has reduced the number of tourists and at least for now has given Venice back to its citizens.