Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
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Uniform Justice

Author: Donna Leon

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2007

Synopsis

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice’s elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro seems devastated by his son’s death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy would not have committed suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or to involve Brunetti in any kind of investigation into their son’s death. Is the silence that confronts Brunetti the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is he facing a conspiracy far greater than this one 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

Book 12 of the series may be one of my favorites. There's not a lot of action, but rather a lot of contemplation and discussion about the political and military classes in Venice and Italy. The book centers around the death of a 17-year-old boy in a Military Academy in Venice. Everyone is sure it wa......more

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox

Uniform Justice, the riveting 12th addition to Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti Series is a complex, thought-provoking and sad story that captures you from the very first page and lingers in your mind long after you finished the last page. Commissario Guido Brunetti called to the exclusive San Marti......more

Goodreads review by Gerald

Anyone who buys this book seeking a standard whodunnit will be disappointed, as at least one reviewer has plainly been. How sad to miss the growing depth of Donna Leon's portrayal of Venice, corruption in the Italian way of life, and the effect it has on the people who inhabit it. Strangely, it seems......more

Quotes

“This is an outstanding book, deserving of the widest audience possible, a chance for American readers to again experience a master practitioner's art.” Publishers Weekly

“David Colacci's reading of this mystery is done with a slight Italian accent, which creates a feel of authenticity.” AudioFile magazine

“It's high time this series earns the accolades in the US it has been receiving in Europe for years.” Booklist (starred review)

“Brunetti …long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives.” Evening Standard (London)

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