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The Temptation of Forgiveness

Commissario Brunetti, Book 27

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The Temptation of Forgiveness

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Sibley
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Important information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido Brunetti is tasked with uncovering the culprit. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, a friend of his wife's comes asking for his help, fearful that her son is using drugs.

A few weeks later, the woman's husband is found unconscious at the foot of a bridge.

With only contradictory leads to follow, Brunetti navigates his way through Venice's underworld in an attempt to understand who is responsible for the vicious attack. But as he gets closer to discovering what happened, Brunetti is faced with a difficult truth: sometimes, it's the best intentions that lead to the darkest of consequences . . .

'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The Times

'En­chanting . . . drolly amusing . . . it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging' New York Times Book Review

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Not the best a tedious listen! Very disappointed. Never ending. With a very disappointing ending

Boring

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Donna Leon is such a compassionate and intuitive writer and I adore her hero.... This story was as usual quite excellent, but I was so disappointed in Brunetti's final decision... no spoiler alert here. It's just that his action or rather non action reflected the title's premise but not Bruneti's essential goodness and compassion. He wasn't punishing the right person by his inaction and it seemed so unlike the character I have come to see as a shining light of the quite impossible balance of pragmatism and humanity.

Forgiveness

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The story flows along smoothly overall, although Brunetti does not seem quite his usual self.

Book 27

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As always Donna Leon's settings and characters are excellent, but the narrator's pronunciation of quite basic Italian words is flawed which becomes irritating. Perhaps he could do some homework on this ....

homework needed

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loved it. Donna Leon not only writes excellent crime novels but also gives us an insight into Italy today.

not only excellent crime novel it's so much more!

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