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Review #1
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Once a devoted fan of Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti’s series, I have grown increasingly disappointed with her last few books. The weak plot of “By its Cover”, the diminished involvement of the beloved Brunetti family and the rest of the usual cast of characters, and the fact that the case was actually resolved by someone other than Brunetti, combined to make me feel as though Leon was tossing crumbs to her readers. The abrupt ending had me shaking my head in disbelief. It was as though Leon simply tired of writing and said “enough “. It is with a heavy heart that I say “enough” to Donna Leon and ciao to Guido Brunetti.
Review #2
By Its Cover audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Rare books have appeared in other mystery novels, but Leon has managed to elevate the collector’s compulsions in the intimate setting of Brunetti’s domestic life. Paola’s parents are helpful in giving introductions to revered (if tattered) nobility. The Commissario steps lightly from spiteful dowager to bitter brother when a former priest is brutally murdered, a man who reads about God by day and has a scandalous secret life.
Every word Leon offers us leads to a deeper understanding of the tangled web of Italian politics and corruption. She jabs at the neglectful bureaucrats in charge of history and the environment. She prods the policia along a wobbly line of justice.
I feel that, with her last few books, Donna Leon has been phoning it in. The books are shorter, and the stories delve too much into arcane ways of life, way off the mainstream. All our characters are there, Vice Questore Patta, Lieutenant Scarpa, Signorina Electra, Brunetti’s faithful assistant Vianello, but they are by now set in stone. No one ever evolves, the books have become too formulaic. I still read them, for Ms. Leon’s lovely descriptions of Venice, and because I keep hoping she will regain her enthusiasm and give us a really exciting read. In this book, once the murder was committed, no one else was ever in danger so there was no suspense, no reason to turn the page. I love Commissario Guido Brunetti, but Donna Leon needs to work harder.
Review #3
Audiobook By Its Cover by Donna Leonm
And yet AGAIN she cuts us off at the knees with a curtailed denouement! Maybe Leon thinks she’s clever, but I turn the page expecting more and wham, it’s like being kicked in the slats. That’s it for me. No more of this duplicitous author. I would have given four stars for this book otherwise. Don’t trust her. One star for the usual beauty of her Venice descriptions; makes me want to go.
I am enjoying reading the Commisario Brunetti mystery series. It’s like getting to know a new friend or family. I also like the fact that so far there is very little swearing or sex described in the stories. The murders, for the most part, are not described in gory detail. There’s enough of that on the evening news. The characters seem real, reasonable people with real, reasonable, expected emotions. The main story characters have a sense of humor along with a serious side.
Review #4
Audio By Its Cover narrated by David Colacci
I have read all of Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti novels. I liked them all, some better than others. But ‘By its Cover’ is the best. I read it in such a short time that I was sure it was a shorter novel than usual–not so, it is normal length. I wanted more of the story; I couldn’t put it down, and when I read the last line I didn’t realize it was over. Reading on Kindle can do that. The characters are not formed by several exposures to them, but even so, rather than being sketchy, they were complete as a result of Leon’s perfect descriptions. I could see each one, and I did care about them. The pace is fast in this novel, but perhaps it is because I care very much about books myself, and was horrified by the realization that theft and mutilation of rare books is a crime that really does happen on a larger scale than I would have thought–will we still have these old, rare books in the next century? Leon’s strength in her books is perfectly setting the scene in Venice (I have been there), perfectly creating a look into the family of the detective, and giving us new and different characters in each of the mysteries.
Spring in Venice. The scents of lilacs in a courtyard. Lily of the valley on sale at the churchyard steps. Monster sized cruise ships cluttering up the canals. And a new case for Commissario Guido Brunetti when, at the library Biblioteca Merula, comes the discovery of thefts of pages upon pages from its collection of rare, valuable and irreplaceable old books. Evidence seems to point to a Mr. Nickerson, a visiting University of Kansas scholar/researcher who has suddenly disappeared. But is he really an American? Could he have done it alone? And how and where might the library’s other scholar, the former priest known as “Tertullian,” fit in?
It isn’t until about the halfway point that one of the key characters gets brutally murdered. And the plot thickens.
Among the series regulars, we get to spend some quality time with Brunetti’s wife, Paola, and Paola’s parents, the Faliers, who’ve not been seen in recent books. Signorina Elettra gets involved, but to a lesser extent than usual. Vianello does his customary sidekick role early on then fades away. Towards the end, the Questura’s only female commissario, Claudia Griffoni, teams up with Brunetti to finish off the case. Patta and Scarpa and Raffi and Chaira make cameo appearances.
This 23rd in the series introduces a decidedly different sort of case for Brunetti. Well done. Interesting. But probably won’t make my list of Leon favorites.
Review #5
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A library in Venice loses some valuable rare books and others in its collection are vandalised. Brunetti is assigned to the case even though he believes it would be better dealt with by a specialist unit. It soon becomes clear that one of the scholars who has been using the library on a regular basis is not who he seems to be and when one of the other readers is found murdered the stakes become higher than even Brunetti suspected.
I enjoyed this subtle and understated story which is far more in the vein of earlier Brunetti stories. While there are asides about environmental issues these do not dominate the story as recent episodes in this series have to done to their detriment, in my opinion.
Here are all the favourite series characters including Paola, Guido Brunetti’s forthright wife, his aristocratic in-laws and his police colleagues – Patta, Vianello and the inimitable Elettra with her mastery of all things computerised. Venice is, as ever, almost a character in the story providing an atmospheric background to theft and murder.
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