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by Donna Leon

Author:	Donna Leon
Subcategory:	Mystery
Language:	English
Publisher:	RB Large Print; Large Print Edition edition (2005)
Pages:	387 pages
Category:	Suspense and Mystery
Rating:	4.9
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Death in a Strange Country, published in 1993, was the second in her series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti of. .Donna Leon has lived in Venice for twenty-five years.

Death in a Strange Country, published in 1993, was the second in her series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police, and it’s nothing short of brilliant. I’d made the mistake of reading her latest offering in the series, the twenty-fourth, Falling in Love, which I found unworthy of her reputation. Death in a Strange Country redeems her in my eyes. The true subject of Death in a Strange Country is corruption. Leon’s depiction of Italian society and especially the Italian criminal justice system is unsparing.

Praise for Death in a Strange Country and the Commissario Brunetti mysteries. One of the best international crime writers is Donna Leon, and her Commissario Guido Brunetti tales set in Venice are at the apex of continental thrillers. Brunetti remains one of the most persuasively characterized protagonists in crime fiction. The Good Book Guide (. Commissario Guido Brunetti, most charismatic current Euro-cop, uncovers a deadly ants’ nest of corruption. The author has written a pitch-perfect tale where all the characters are three-dimensional, breathing entities, and the lives they live, while by turns sweet and horrific, are always believable.

Death in a Strange Country, is the second book in Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti Series. When a death in Venice is no longer the subject of a literary work, but of a murder investigation, Commissario Brunetti's problems begin to mount. When the body of Sgt. Michael Foster, a public health inspector at the American base in Vicenza, is pulled up from a canal in Venice, it looks like a mugging gone wrong. But Brunetti is convinced that there’s something more than just an American being a victim of a robbery. The unidentified corpse fished from the canal is not Italian.

Death in a Strange Country (1993) is the second novel in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti mysteries set in Venice and the sequel to Death at La Fenice (1992). Early one morning Brunetti is confronted with the body of a young American serviceman fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All clues point to a mugging, but robbery seems too convenient a motive.

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Death in a Strange Country. ‘You’re a commissario?’ ‘Yes. ‘This is Dottoressa Fabbiani. Brunetti noticed that the pavement was wet, with large puddles against the walls of the buildings he passed

Death in a Strange Country. Brunetti noticed that the pavement was wet, with large puddles against the walls of the buildings he passed. Curious, he walked back to the edge of the riva and looked down at the water, but it was more than half a metre below him. It was low tide, there was no acqua alta, and no rain had fallen for days, so the only way the water could have got there was by being washed up by a passing ship. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal.

Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries). Book in the Commissario Brunetti Series). Donna Leon is certainly good - Death in a Strange County is the first of her books I've read and there is an enticingly large array of other books by her to move on to. It was a single-evening read and delivered everything it should. Guido (the Venetian policeman) is a good hero - not too macho, not too fey - a palpable person. And Venice - I was there. Leon really manages to evoke the workaday reality of the city.

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body .

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal.

From Kirkus Reviews Something different for Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti, whose first case (Death at La Fenice, 1992) so expertly resurrected the closed-circle whodunit. This time, the murder of Sgt. Michael Foster, public health inspector at the American military hospital at Vicenza, produces such a pronounced lack of reaction--Brunetti's officious boss Patti insists it be written off as a mugging; somebody plants cocaine in Foster's quarters in the hope of heading off further questions; even Foster's lover and commanding officer insists she has no idea why he's been killed--that the fix is clearly in with either the American military or the Italian police. Patti pulls Brunetti off the case to work a burglary from a Grand Canal palazzo, but that--and more sinister high-level skullduggery--are predictably tied in too. No whodunit, but a measured, thoughtful conspiracy investigation that goes a long way toward extending Leon's range. This is definitely an author to watch. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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NOW I UNDERSTAND why so many people are crazy about Donna Leon’s detective fiction! Death in a Strange Country, published in 1993, was the second in her series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police, and it’s nothing short of brilliant. I’d made the mistake of reading her latest offering in the series, the twenty-fourth, Falling in Love, which I found unworthy of her reputation. Death in a Strange Country redeems her in my eyes.

The story in this novel revolves around two murder mysteries and a robbery, all of which Brunetti is assigned to solve. A young man, probably an American, is found dead floating in the water of a Venice canal. He may, or may not, be the victim of a robbery. Later, a young American doctor at a U.S. Army base outside a town near Venice is found dead in her quarters, dead of a heroin overdose. Finally, the Venice palace of a Milano industrialist is burgled and its owner sent to the hospital from a beating. In all three cases, Brunetti smells a story that would rule out the obvious explanation. His investigation of all these mysteries is hemmed in by his boss, a feckless and lazy Sicilian with a fancy title who is interested only in pleasing the powers that be and taking credit for any discoveries made by defying his orders.

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for twenty-five years. Her books have been translated into many languages — but not, at her request, into Italian. The true subject of Death in a Strange Country is corruption. Leon’s depiction of Italian society and especially the Italian criminal justice system is unsparing. Little wonder that she has resisted the translation of her novels into the local language!

Muniath

This is perhaps my favorite murder mystery series, and I've read a ton over the years. The author does an exceptional job in developing all the characters - especially Commissario Brunetti. I spent 5 days in Venice a couple years back and spent just enough time to get a decent feel for this charming and very special city. It's obvious Leon has lived there as her descriptions of the city are exceptional. Brunetti's Venice encompasses all of Venice from the Grand Canal to the numerous one way canals, and you will feel like you are there. From the Expresso cafes to the pastry shops and deli's Brunetti frequents, you can almost taste the food and smell the aromas from the coffee to the less than pleasant smells of the canals.

This is the second book in the series (I recommend starting with that one first so you will have a better feel for Brunetti, but you certainly won't be lost if you begin with this one. Brunetti must solve a murder of an American soldier stationed at a nearby US military base, where all signs point to a mugging gone terribly wrong. But in his analytical fashion, Brunetti digs deeper and finds a high level conspiracy involving the US military at the base. Given the political ramifications, Brunetti must, in his semi Columbo style, determine why and how to progress the case given his Superior wants to sweep this all under the rug as well.

I won't go further, but suffice it to say, you will be entranced by our intrepid Commissiario's style, his ability to prior information out of reluctant people and his low key approach. He's the type of person we all would love to have as a boss.

This is one series I'll stay with as long as Donna Leon keeps writing them. It's hard to put the book down once I start it.

LeXXXuS

The more I read Donna Leon's series based on Venetian Police Commissioner Guido Brunetti, the more I choose her work over others in the detective motif. Brunetti is urbane, intelligent, smart enough to avoid violence (most of the time), way smarter than his Vice-Questore supervisor (a prototypically incompetent, vain, political appointee), and revered by the other (few) competent personnel in the department. He's also a loyal husband and a good father - and human, very human.

Reading the series is also a way of picking up a bit of Venetian history and tidbits about the city and its landmark buildings and canals. Ms. Leon, an American ex-pat, has lived in Venice for 25 years or more and suffuses her experience of Venice and Italy into each story. One common theme is the dysfunction and corruption that runs through Italian life - with its revolving-door governments, its version of society's 1 percenters (both from older nobility and the newly wealthy), and the prevalence of Mafia-based crime underlying almost every facet of the economy. But another theme is the existence of the good, honest, competent people Guido knows, from all walks of life, with whom he consults to solve the case he's working on.

If square-jawed, testosterone-fueled, alcoholic, tobacco-sucking cops are your thing, you may not care for Guido - and that would be your loss. But it's never too late to try something new...

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