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Apr 10, 2019
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I don’t read the Commissario Guido Brunetti series in order. I jump around depending on what’s available at the library. The series is currently at 28, so Willful Behavior is toward the middle.
Paola, Guido’s wife, brings the case to his attention. One of her students has a question about receiving a pardon for her dead grandfather. She doesn’t provide many clues, just enough to make Brunetti curious. And then she ends up dead, killed.
This time the mystery involves events from World War II and Gu ...more
Paola, Guido’s wife, brings the case to his attention. One of her students has a question about receiving a pardon for her dead grandfather. She doesn’t provide many clues, just enough to make Brunetti curious. And then she ends up dead, killed.
This time the mystery involves events from World War II and Gu ...more
A much better novel than Ms Leon's previous effort. The murder of a female college student, who also happens to be a student of Guido Brunetti's wife, Paolo, eventually becomes a tale of lingering anger following the events of World War II, and widespread corruption throughout the Italian legal system. The student was indirectly related to the former lover (now an old woman) of a man widely regarded with distaste for acquiring art during the war at knock down prices, the owners desperate to sell
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I have listened to two of Com. Brunetti books not narrated by David Colacci, and they were just not the same experience.
I'm not sure if I have read a bad or even mediocre Brunetti tale.
A student of Paolo's goes to see Brunetti. She works in a library. She is trying to find out if she can get her grandfather's name cleared. He died after going to the insane asylum. Much of this book goes back to the politics of WWII in Italy. Much of it was unspoken at the time. Plus it involves looted art.
I started to listen to this but I think that recording had been listened to too much. It kept breaking up. So I switched to a ...more
A student of Paolo's goes to see Brunetti. She works in a library. She is trying to find out if she can get her grandfather's name cleared. He died after going to the insane asylum. Much of this book goes back to the politics of WWII in Italy. Much of it was unspoken at the time. Plus it involves looted art.
I started to listen to this but I think that recording had been listened to too much. It kept breaking up. So I switched to a ...more
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