Fatal Remedies: (Brunetti 8)

Fatal Remedies: (Brunetti 8)

by Donna Leon (Author), Donna Leon (Author)

Synopsis

A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife. As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under increasing pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious death and his superiors need quick results. As his professional and personal lives clash, Brunetti's own career is under threat - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 303
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 02 Mar 2000

ISBN 10: 0099536641
ISBN 13: 9780099269304
Book Overview: From Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Leon comes the eighth installment in the Commissario Brunetti crime fiction series, in which Brunetti finds himself forced to arrest his own wife...

Media Reviews
Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives ... Brunetti is ... back on track, sadder perhaps, but wiser and wittier than ever * Sunday Times *
A splendid series ... with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can smell it * Sunday Telegraph *
One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever * The Washington Post *
No one knows the labyrinthine world of Venice . . . like Leon's Brunetti * Time *
[Brunetti's] humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight * The New York Times Book Review *
Author Bio
Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.