★★★¾
GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: blackmail, reclusiveness
SETTING: Venice, Italy
CHARACTERS: Commissario Brunetti, Maria Battestini, Signorina Elettra, Inspector Vianello, Signora Gismondi
DATE READ: November 20 - November 23
NO. OF PAGES: 321
Off the Shelf (pre-2012)? Source?: No, Public Library
CATEGORY: Speech Class
PLOT:.................................4
CHARACTERIZATION:.........4
TOPICS:.............................3.5
STYLE:...............................4
ORIGINALITY:.....................3
ADDICTIVENESS:...............3.5
OWNERSHIP:.....................3.5
THRESHOLD QUALITY:.......3.5
Average......................................................3.63
Commissario Brunetti has taken a holiday and when he returns he finds that Lt Scarpa has overseen a murder and closed the case without apparent due diligence. So when Brunetti is confronted with a witness whose evidence Scarpa ignores, Guido sets out to clear the reputation of the alleged killer and find the true culprit.
The clues in this mystery were well-hidden and the characters involved were not necessarily like-able but did appear as they needed to be. I really liked this installment, maybe one of my favorites.
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