Commassario Guido Brunetti is back in Book #20, Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon.
Once again I accompany Commassario Brunetti as he walks the streets of his beloved Venice. A very pragmatic and interesting police officer, I admire his love of city, of family, of history, of art, of food and life.
An older woman is found dead in her apartment from an apparent heart attack. But Guido can’t quite shake the feeling that the heart attack was caused by some other action.
Four Stars **** ( )

Another mystery, but definitely not a cozy. Commissario Brunetti's world is riddled with corruption of one kind or another, and Brunetti himself is beginning to see where he fits. The death of a woman in her apartment looks natural, but something does not seem right. And the more he wonders about it, the more he finds, of course. The solution is riddled with fraud and love.

The books are getting darker, or I am getting less able to ward off the depressing aspects, which Leon herself tries to ward off by lyrical descriptions of Venice. There are many more books in the series, although how Brunetti hasn't left the force by now is astonishing. ( )

Guido Brunetti investigates the supposedly accidental death of an old woman. The usual characters and typical Leon twist. ( )

No other crime series makes the grey area between right and wrong so human, nor has as well-read and witty a detective. ( )

Venice, law-enforcement, lawyers, class-consciousness, family, family-dynamics, friendship, departmental-rivalry, investigation, fraud, coercion****

I'm weaving an irregular path through the Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries. Just because I finally have the time. The order of the books is vaguely irrelevant to me because I am completely ignorant of Italian policing and finances but love to see visual or word pictures of Venice. That being said, this is an interesting think piece. At what point does a heart attack become murder? Who, how and why? Leave it to Brunetti to leave no tesserae unturned and learn things about himself in the process.
I have the audio ably narrated by David Colacci with his clear and easy to understand pleasant voice interpretation. ( )