– Selvmordet til en ung kadett fører politietterforskeren Brunetti i kontakt med det militære akademi, en institusjon han har lite til overs for. Som forventet blir han møtt med arroganse og taushet fra skolens autoriteter, men til hans forbauselse nekter også den dødes familie å snakke. Guttens far, en pensjonert politiker, er knust av sønnens død og overbevist om at han ikke har tatt sitt eget liv, men vil ikke uttale seg utover det. Omgitt av fiender står Brunetti alene i sin søken etter sannheten, en sannhet noen for enhver pris ønsker å holde skjult. Donna Leon er en forfatter som skriver knallgod krim. Hun er en mester i å komponere spennende plot, samtidig som hun har en feeling for menneskeskjebner som er sjelden.
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Uniform Justice
«There is the joy of contemplating Venice: the veiled and ancient heroine, with a sad haunted beauty slipping away year by year. Read it is the dusk, with a grappa»
Libby Purves, Good Book Guide
'Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind' Sunday Times
Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students.
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'Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind' Sunday Times
Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students.
The young man is the son of an ex-politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. But as Brunetti - and the indispensable Signorina Elettra - investigate further, no one seems willing to talk. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?
'Silken prose and considerable charm . . . an unlovely story set in the loveliest of cities' Washington Post
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780099536659
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna's books have been translated into thirty-five languages and have been published around the world.
Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.
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«There is the joy of contemplating Venice: the veiled and ancient heroine, with a sad haunted beauty slipping away year by year. Read it is the dusk, with a grappa»
Libby Purves, Good Book Guide
«Brunetti ... long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives»
Evening Standard
«Complex and thought-provoking and lingers in the mind»
Sunday Times
«Wonderfully familiar characters, a powerful sense of place and expert plotting»
Guardian