So Shall You Reap

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It opens with Ispecttore Lorenzo Vianello and Guido engaging in tricky dance to rescue Alvisse, a police officer who had attended a gay protest. Leon’s descriptive prose is delightful: “Bocchese was at his desk, along with the detritus of days, if not years. Since his debut over thirty years ago in Death At La Fenice, Brunetti has investigated a new crime in Venice each year, from corruption to mafia, real estate to trade art, collecting millions of fans around the world in that time. He turns to Sophocles’s Antigone in an attempt to understand the true purpose of justice, and, in its light, he is forced to consider the terrible consequences to which the actions of a tender heart can lead.

Rhona Laing, the Fiscal, finds journalist Jerry Markham lying dead, drifting in a yoal, a traditional Shetland boat in Aith marina. 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.Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is not the man he once was, since the death of his fiancée and at first he takes a back seat in the investigations, led by Detective Inspector Willow Reeves (originally from the Hebrides) who is drafted in from the Inverness team to head up the investigation. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. 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. The good news is that she ages him – so there is a sense of realness about her characters, which makes him and others believable.

A massive storm hits Hamburg, flooding the city, just as a major environmental summit is about to start. He believes the man’s death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse – and more sinister material – in his company’s trucks. And before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling and apparently senseless death. Although at some point that theme pretty much gives away the solution to the murder, the book is still a delight to read. It was a pleasant Buddhist Sri Lankan, Inesh Kavinda, who was living in the garden shed of the Palazzo Zaffo Sri Leonie.Pellestrina is a closely knit community, the islanders bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders. However, the crime still needs resolving and Brunetti finds himself in a web of political intrigue, corruption and secrets.

As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. His hair had thinned a bit, the sides growing white; his face had aged, and he’d put on some weight. In addition, after Professor Molin had a stroke, Kavinda served as a personal aide, helping the Professor get around Venice.Brunetti nodded and sighed, remembering one particularly unpleasant demonstration in front of the hospital. A Fear of Dark Water by Craig Russell – the sixth book in the Jan Fabel series, the head of Hamburg’s Murder Commission.