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Review #1
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First a bit of back-story: Last year about this time when Donna Leon was in Washington promoting her latest Brunetti novel, “Drawing Conclusions,” someone in the audience asked her where she gets her ideas. So she told us a bit about the Brunetti novel she was then writing, which was this one. She said she’d seen a most unusual looking man on a train one day and later learned he was a victim of a rare condition called Madelung’s disease. Then a little later at the dry cleaner’s she spotted someone she’d known slightly many years earlier. Inspiration struck and in next to no time, a Madelung man would become her next murder victim, the physique and persona of the former acquaintance would attach itself to a prime suspect, and “Beastly Things” would take off from there.
“Beastly Things” opens at the morgue, with Brunetti looking at the newly arrived and odd-bodied corpse that had just been pulled out of the canal with three knife wounds in his back and no identification on him, while Rizzardi, the coroner, explains most interestingly the man’s rare condition. It will then take quite a while for Brunetti and Vianello to discover who the victim was, but eventually they learn he was not a Venetian, but a man from the nearby inland town of Mestre. In short order their investigation will center on a slaughterhouse and what appears to be some nefarious goings-on there.
As longtime Leon fans will know, up until “Drawing Conclusions” the Brunetti novels all featured two concurrent cases. I really like this new cutting down of Brunetti’s workload to a single case per novel, as it provides Leon with more room to get into our hero’s ruminations about this and that, conversations with his wife Paola and partner Vianello and keenly observant descriptive passages about life in Venice. We also get a brief glimpse this time of a more human side of Patta as a father. And the two detectives admit to wondering whether all these “friends” Elettra counts on for inside information may really be pseudonyms for herself. But do they really want to know?
And, oh yes, Brunetti at last gets a computer and, as rarely happens after a Questura investigation, someone actually gets arrested.
Review #2
Beastly Things audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Review #3
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Review #4
Audio Beastly Things narrated by David Colacci
A vet is found dead in one of the canals though at first Brunetti has no idea who or what he is. It is some time before careful investigation reveals who the dead man is. Brunetti is as ever dubious about the corruption he sees going on all around him and he is gradually developing an environmental conscience too.
When he discovers that the dead man worked for an abattoir and ran a clinic for pet animals he sets Signorina Elettra to work on finding out whether there could be a connection between either of his jobs and his death. What he finds shocks him to the core and overturns some of his long held beliefs.
The scenes at the abattoir are very well done and show how less is more if you want readers to realise the full horror of a situation. Both Brunetti and Vianello are stunned and rendered speechless for quite a while by what they see and hear. These scenes and the ending redeem this book in my opinion as they are extraordinarily well written.
Review #5
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I love the text. Donna Leon is an excellent author and the Brunetti series is engrossing. But the seller listed this book as in ‘very good’ condition, and as a volunteer at an Oxfam bookshop, I can say with authority that it isn’t. The cover is badly creased and coffee-stained and the whole book is deformed and curved. If it came into our shop, it would have been sent for pulping.
Also, while these books do stand alone, it would be helpful if the Amazon site gave clear indication of which books come where in the series. I read Beastly Things on the recommendation of a friend, and while it’s clear that it comes fairly late in the sequence, I’m struggling to work out which books come first so that I can backtrack and find out more about the fascinating Inspector Brunetti. Help please Amazon?
That said, it didn’t stop me reading and enjoying the contents. If you haven’t discovered the Brunetti series and you enjoy a good murder mystery with strong character development, give it a try.
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