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Drawing Conclusions
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes that there is more to it.
It soon transpires that there are some faint bruises around her neck and shoulders, indicating she may have been shaken. Could this have caused a heart attack? Was someone threatening her?
Meanwhile, Brunetti meets Signora Altavilla’s son, Niccolini, who tells him that since her retirement she had been helping out at a nearby nursing home. Brunetti visits the home with Ispettore Vianello to try and find any information that might be connected to the case. While they speak to those she spent the most time with, it appears that there is some hostility between the residents, which raises Brunetti’s suspicions. Once again, he enlists the help of Signorina Elettra, who discovers that Signora Altavilla was involved with an organisation that helped women at risk, providing them with a safe house. Could this have something to do with her death?
As the investigation takes an unexpected twist in events, Brunetti needs to find out the truth before it gets buried within a community that seems to be slipping deeper and deeper into deception and lies.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Annie Honjo
- 13-05-11
Intelligent, erudite and thoroughly absorbing.
This is an astonishingly intricate work of fiction. The plot is complex but not complicated; the characters are very believable and are sensitively drawn; the Venetian landscape bubbles beautifully under the story without ever trying to take centre stage. I also found our policeman's day-to-day life every bit as enthralling as the mystery he is trying to unravel. Donna Leon draws the reader/listener into the life of this ordinary Italian policeman and allows you a glimpse into a home life that you feel could very well be that of millions of other Italians. Andrew Sachs is superb. His narrative voice is compelling and his effortless, subtle transition between the various voices can fool you into thinking you are listening to a whole cast of different characters.
I don't often give audiobooks a second listen, but I will be happy to hear this one again before too long. Excellent. The best in my library so far.
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- Dr. Janet Martin Soskice
- 02-06-21
Unsatisfactory and formulaic
Whether the book or the abridgement, somehow this didn’t work. A story line of a translator and her boyfriend is introduced and then vanishes. Brunetti seems to have nothing to do and the investigating is done by Signorina Electra. Leon’s editor should be ashamed.
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