Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.
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A New Yorker of Irish/Spanish descent, Donna Leon first went to Italy in 1965, returning regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the States and then later in Iran, China and finally Saudi Arabia. Leon has received both the CWA Macallon Silver Dagger for Fiction and the German Corrine Prize for her novels featuring Commisario Guido Brunetti. She lives in Venice.
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Another outstanding entry in the Guido Brunetti series.,
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This review is from: The Anonymous Venetian (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) (Hardcover)
This is another outstanding entry in the Guido Brunetti mystery series set in the incomparable Venice. My only question is why the entire series isn't published in the United States? For other Brunetti fans, be advised that the entire series is published in the United Kingdom and can be obtained from Amazon.UK.
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This was the second Donna Leon mystery that I read...note that it is published in the US under the title Dressed for Death. This is a fine mystery with some gruesome moments but also the superb character rendering for which Leon is known. The entire series is worth your time if you like mysteries which are realistic about power and corruption in modern-day Italian society. The foil for this dark seriousness is the city of Venice itself and Guido Brunetti's moments with his family, painted without sentimentality but with much warmth.
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What sexual gratification would a person get from wearing clothing of the opposite sex? Brunetti's fetish thoughts answered.,
By Andrea Bowhill (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Anonymous Venetian (Mass Market Paperback)
A word used in our human circles to describe a crossdresser would be transvestite (Italian: travestito) meaning someone who dresses in the clothes usually worn by the opposite sex. Transvestites may be bisexual, heterosexual or homosexual; Transvestite comes from the Latin word travesty.Commissario Brunetti investigate the death of what is first to be thought a female worker or prostitute left under a clump of bushes near an Industrial site. The body had been found by a couple of factory workers on their break, all they could really see at the time was her silk red shoes on shapely ankles sticking out of the grass at the end. One of the men approached the women wondering if it was worth stealing the shoes realizing the body was motionless thought better of it and called the police. Twenty minuets later Brunetti and men manage a closer inspection he realizes the female was actually male, full make up wearing his/her very best wig, bright beautiful dress with laced undergarments and striking shoes. When two more bodies turn up connected to the case Brunetti has to act fast, everybody around seems to be acting like a pack of hyenas (also ambiguous for their gender bend) Brunetti is facing the task of digging deeper into the mind of the crossdresser, which currently is filled to the brim with deception and misconception. Once again Leon deals with the task at hand with ease, covering many topics, Corruption of government, the sex trade and drugs. The fictional characters are beautifully woven in, a comic team of testosterone police trying to prove what it takes to be real men, right up to my favorite the wonderful Sicilian Vice-Questore Giuseppe Patta (Brunetti Boss) whose wife has called his bluff at last and left him, committing the ultimate unforgivable act of seriousness' denting his incredibly ego, the most important thing on his mind now is how to restore his image. Brunetti eyes are opened up to the seedier side of Venice once again, Left Occupied in thoughts dealing with the matter alone. Leon pulls out all stops for a fun loving fantastic read in this series. This book is also under the title Dressed for Death.
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