Doctored Evidence
Commissario Brunetti #13Donna Leon
ISBN: | 9780434010677 |
Publisher: | William Heinemann Ltd |
Published: | 4 March, 2004 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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- 1 Death at La Fenice
- 2 Death in a Strange Country
- 3 Dressed for Death
- 4 Death and Judgment
- 5 Acqua Alta
- 6 Quietly in Their Sleep
- 7 A Noble Radiance
- 8 Fatal Remedies
- 9 Friends in High Places
- 10 A Sea of Troubles
- 11 Wilful Behaviour
- 12 Uniform Justice
- 13 Doctored Evidence
- 14 Blood from a Stone
- 15 Through a Glass Darkly
- 16 Suffer the Little Children
- 17 The Girl of His Dreams
- 18 About Face
- 19 A Question of Belief
- 20 Drawing Conclusions
- 21 Beastly Things
- 22 The Golden Egg
- 23 By its Cover
- 24 Falling In Love
- 25 The Waters of Eternal Youth
- 26 Earthly Remains
- 27 The Temptation of Forgiveness
- 28 Unto Us a Son Is Given
- 29 Trace Elements
- 30 Transient Desires
- 31 Give Unto Others
- 32 So Shall You Reap
- 33 A Refiner's Fire
Doctored Evidence
Commissario Brunetti #13Donna Leon
Doctored Evidence is every bit as impressive as any previous outing for the urbane Commissario Brunetti we've encountered--and reading a Donna Leon novel is almost as good as a trip to Italy, so evocative is the ex-pat of her adoptive country. Not that Signor Berlusconi would necessarily approve of the multiple levels of Italian corruption and double-dealing that Leon has strip-mined for her unflappable copper to take on--and her view of the other dark sides of Italy strays quite some way from the tourist's point of view. Here, Brunetti seems to have come up against an open-and-shut case; a well-heeled Venetian is found bloodily murdered in her flat, with her missing maid, a Romanian immigrant, the prime suspect. The maid is tracked down, but meets a violent end on a railway track attempting to escape. Needless to say, Brunetti doesn't takes things at face value and when it transpires that the money found on the maid has not been stolen, this (along with other factors) has Brunetti doing a little unofficial sleuthing, and uncovering a very tangled web of motives indeed--with revelations quite different from the attempts to cover up municipal shenanigans that have often been the worm in the bud of previous Brunetti cases. By now, we're all very comfortable with the Commissario and his dogged head-butting at complacent institutions. But Leon is not one to rest on her laurels--there are new elements here (notably in the brilliantly orchestrated final chapters) that
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