Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
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Dressed for Death

Author: Donna Leon

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2009

Synopsis

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.

About Donna Leon

American author, Donna Leon, has settled nicely into a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy entitled, Brunettixote. The novels feature the fictional character of Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Leon was born in 1942, and eventually lived in Venice, Italy for over 30 years. She was an English literature lecturer for the University of Maryland in Europe (Italy), and worked on a military base in Italy for several years, before she became a full time writer. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and also had a home in a smaller Swiss village.

The novels have been translated from English into several foreign languages, but for some reason the author did not approve them being translated into Italian. German television has shown 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes that they produced for broadcast.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on August 23, 2020

Donna Leon, I am sorry! I apologize for not reading any of your books until this year (2020). I LOVE THIS SERIES!!! Set in Venice, I love the plots and characters. Just another super job with Commissario Brunetti. This time he is on the trail of a murderer who has killed a man who is found in the fi......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox on January 18, 2016

Dressed to Kill, the 3rd book in Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti Series starts with a body found behind a slaughterhouse in Marghera. Despite the case falling under the Mestre police department, Brunetti is sent to investigate due to a shortage of detectives in that station. Brunetti is not please......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 26, 2023

3.5 stars. I enjoyed going back to Venice and spending time with Commissario Brunetti. He is unusual in that he doesn't participate in a lot of gossip, has an openness & compassion for the human condition, and is contemptuous of the systemic corruption in many Italian governmental departments and bu......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 26, 2020

I'd read other Donna Leon books prior to picking up the first of the series. If it had been the first I'd read, it would definitely got me into reading the remainder. It provided an excellent introduction to Commissario Brunetti and the other main characters who make up the cast in the series; his l......more

Quotes

“The sophisticated yet still moral Brunetti…proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.” Wall Street Journal

“Brunetti...the most humane sleuth since Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret...is a decent man [who achieves] a quiet heroism.” The Philadelphia Enquirer 

“Richly evocative…intriguing…Venice takes on a deep noir tint in Leon's latest well-crafted work.” Publishers Weekly

“This thoroughly enjoyable procedural will win more fans for the poised, polite, and coolheaded Brunetti.” Booklist

“Brunetti stars in a case that brings out his canniness and his compassion—and shows his creator spreading her wings more powerfully than ever.” Kirkus

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