So Shall You Reap

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Familiar with Flavia’s melodramatic temperament, Commissario Brunetti is at first unperturbed by her story, but when another young opera singer is attacked he begins to think Flavia’s fears may be justified. Despite the rain and cold, Brunetti chose to walk: the vaporetti would be overheated and crowded in weather like this. This was the moment, Brunetti knew, when the three of them should engage one another in talk about sports or any one of the conversational methods men used to fill up time. Not the Venice that the hoards of day trippers experience, but the real city of the Venetians who reside there. My thanks to Grove Atlantic for providing an early copy of this book, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Detective Sime Mackenzie, based in Montreal is part of the team sent to Entry Island to investigate the death of the wealthy businessman, James Cowell found stabbed to death. I say this every time I read a Brunetti novel they are hidden treasures in the genre of crime fiction. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti’s wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot – together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.

The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Brunetti’s dry cleaners has been found dead – an ‘accidental’ overdose of his mother’s sleeping pills – and Paola is distraught by the news. When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. If it’s high-end crime stories with an innate understanding of the perpetrator and victim you’re after, then look no further. As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante and Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is burning the land and fouling the waters of the lagoon.

Ruth Galloway series, with the forensic archaeological details, despite wishing they weren’t written in the present tense. In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. The beauty for me in these books is in the little things, the details of everyday life and small interactions between the city’s people.

Alvise had been on the force for as long as Brunetti, but in that time, while Brunetti had increased in rank, Alvise – slow, polite, inept, thoughtless, well liked although generally considered a fool – had remained a simple officer. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

You’d think this was the Bronx, the way they go crazy anytime someone claims to have been injured while they were being detained. The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. The man named Inesh had lived in the garden house of a wealthy older Venetian couple for eight years. The beginning chapter illustrates the deeply caring personally of police Commissario Brunetti and the vivid Venice setting that are hallmarks of all of these novels. When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play.They relate to Italy's turbulent political and violent history, with its kidnappings and disappearances, but why would the Sri Lankan man be interested in this? What is unsettling is that Guido spoke to the man only the day before his death, while trying to do his father-in-law a favour. So Shall You Reap is the thirty-second book in the Commissario Brunetti series by award-winning American-born author, Donna Leon. SO SHALL YOU REAP is the latest release from Leon and there are two storylines at the center of this novel. Una de las grandes bazas de la serie es el análisis en profundidad que realiza de la sociedad veneciana, desde su geografía hasta su cultura, a la vez que hace un íntimo retrato de la vida personal de Brunetti, a quien en esta ocasión conoceremos algo más gracias a esa incursión en sus años de juventud.