Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Conclusions by Random House UK
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“Donna Leon’s 20th Venetian mystery featuring her compassionate police detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, epitomizes what we treasure most about this series: a feeling for the life of a sublimely beautiful city and a sensitivity to the forces that are reshaping it. Not to mention the pleasure of being in Brunetti’s company when this shrewd but scrupulously honest man is having a crisis of ethics at the flower market or trying to pry information from a hostile nun. Read more Drawing Conclusions

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Reviews Von Donald Mitchell : Date 22. April 2011
"You shall come to the grave at a full age,
As a sheaf of grain ripens in its season." -- Job 5:27 (NKJV)

In Drawing Conclusions, Donna Leon moves away from her usual focus on the corruption of Italian officials to follow a slight track of clues to uncover hidden crimes of abuse. I applaud this shift in focus as well as the delicacy with which she engages in her story. I found Drawing Conclusions to be one of the best books in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series.

At the home of a deceased woman, Guido Brunetti is troubled by marks on the dead woman's body. The medical examiner's ruling of death by heart attack leaves our intrepid investigator without grounds for an official inquiry. But naturally, if one is not busy, perhaps one can simply poke around a bit. And with Signorina Eletra's ability to electronically visit places that are supposed to be closed to the public, perhaps something can be learned. Tiny tendrils of questions arise in the novel based on finding things that don't seem to belong. But . . . in the end, it all makes sense.

In recent years, many mystery writers seem to be falling into the trap of creating more monstrous villains, greater and more far-fetched crimes, and adding lots of violence and action. As a result, the pleasures of unraveling a mystery are mostly lost. Sometimes less can be more, as Drawing Conclusions ably demonstrates. I was impressed by the delicate touches in the story telling such as a number of places where important clues were simply included in an inventory of what Brunetti observed at the crime scene. You are left to draw your own conclusions, which I found refreshing in this overwritten age of mystery novels.

I don't want to spoil your fun, so I won't go into more details.

Brava, Ms.

Reviews Von Dr. Lisa Kramar : Date 19. September 2011
Man könnte sagen,dass dieser neue Brunetti-Krimi wie ein Alterswerk wirkt,-schon vom Thema her,- wüsste man nicht. dass bei Donna Leon die "lauten"(sozial anklagenden) und die "leiseren"(oft eher philosophisch angehauchten) Geschichten einander abwechseln.
Der wahrscheinlich nicht gewollte aber durch ungünstige Vorbedingungen(Herzleiden) resultierende Mord an einer alten Frau,deren soziale Aktivitäten lange als Ursache des Verbrechens erscheinen,ist ein Kabinettstück komplizierter Recherchen und Überlegungen, die schliesslich zu einem unerwarteten Ende führen.
Daneben ist die Atmosphäre der Hilfsorganisation für misshandelte Frauen,- ein für Leon typisches Thema,-hervorragend gezeichnet.Hier kommt Spannung ins Spiel, die nicht nur die Handlung voran treibt sondern auch dem Geschehen Tiefe gibt.
ich kann dieses Buch, wie übrigens fast alle Werke Donna Leons, allen Lesern, nicht nur passionierten Krimikonsumenten, empfehlen.

Reviews Von Micha : Date 26. Juli 2011
Wieder einmal ein Donna Leon der Superklasse! Mit klugem Humor, spannenden Handlungssträngen und - wie immer - schönen Abstechern ins Kulinarische und das Familienleben der Brunettis.

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