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Loading... By its Cover: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (edition 2014)by Donna Leon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. By Its Cover written by Donna Leon is Book #23 of Ms. Leon’s acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. By Its Cover revolves around the stealing and defacing of rare, valuable books and manuscripts. As always the city of Venice, its history, its art, its culture is the main character of the story. Commissario Brunetti, his relationships with family and fellow police, his home city of Venice, his love of food and wine and his determination to find truth is also a main thread, a main character of the story and the entire series. It is hard to put the book down once the reader has begun. It is fascinating to have a front row seat to the logic, the reasoning, the sincerity and dogged pursuit of truth that Brunetti goes through in every case. A highly recommended title and series ***** The very best in gentle escapist mystery reading....Leon brings the mystery to my level, then takes me through the reasoning. She adds human observation, class observations, amazing architecture and slow food to make an enjoyable read with a conclusion you need to reason but are not left confused by. addictive-behaviors, Venice, law-enforcement, art-theft, rare-books, greed, lies, librarian, library, family, family-dynamics, friendship, class-consciousness, clergy, false-information, extortion***** The murder comes near the last quarter of the book. The investigation is of the theft of rare book and even of the illuminated pages cut from books printed in the 16th century. The investigation begins at one particular revered library, but it is soon apparent that it is a problem not only in Venice but in all of Europe. It's the same as with stolen or looted artifacts, the items are stolen to order and sold to private collectors. Well done. David Colacci continues to be the voice actor who performs the series to the delight of me and other readers. no reviews | add a review
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One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty. No library descriptions found. |
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He thought of a story, surely apocryphal, he had once heard about some American movie star - was it Jean Harlow? It was said that when she was given a book for her birthday, she unwrapped it and looked at it, then said, 'A book? I have a book.'
The sun had been crawling across the floor as they sat there, and it now touched the soles of her feet stretched on the table in front of the sofa. She slid down and stretched them farther, wiggling them in the sunlight. 'Oh, that feels good,' she sighed.
Paola obviously had kept some text secreted about her person or under the cushion where she sat, left there in the event that life presented her with the necessity of spending three minutes with nothing to read. ( )