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Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti #15)

Donna Leon

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 5475 Users | 384 Reviews

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Title	:	Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti #15)
Author	:	Donna Leon
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	March 27th 2006 by Atlantic Monthly Press (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Crime

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Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive island of Murano, home of the world-famous glass factories. On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky from the Questura in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has been heard in the bars of Murano making violent threats about Ribetti. Brunetti's curiosity is piqued, and he finds himself drawn to Murano to investigate. Is De Cal the type of man to carry out his threats? Then one morning the body of De Cal's night watchman is found. Over long lunches, on secret boat rides, in quiet bars, and down narrow streets, Brunetti searches for the killer. Will he unravel the clues before the night watchman's death is allowed to be forgotten?

A fascinating novel set in the intersection between tourism and native Venetian society, Through a Glass, Darkly is Donna Leon at her finest.

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Original Title:	Through a Glass, Darkly
ISBN:	0871139375 (ISBN13: 9780871139375)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Commissario Brunetti #15

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Not as tightly plotted as most of her others. Brunetti becomes obsessed with looking into the Murano glass factory of a choleric, miserly old man, motivated by the nasty way the man treats his daughter and son-in-law...but this only gets the plot going. From there, it rambles...there is a nice twist at the end...enjoyable but not gripping, this one.

Donna Leon writes lushly about a Venice in regal decay, with the urbane and likable Commissario Guido Brunetti as her main character, yet it was not until 158 pages in (halfway through the novel) that the crime the good detective was supposed to investigate even occurred. This, I think, encapsulates everything I found frustrating about Through a Glass, Darkly.I waffled between giving this book 3 or 2 stars on Goodreads because it really wasnt an awful book. But as a mystery, it completely

Donna Leons 15th book in her Commissario Brunetti Series and once again we are back in the beautiful city of Venice. It's springtime and Commissario Brunetti asked by his assistant, Vianello, to help him rescue his good friend who has being arrested for taking part in an environmental demonstration. But there may be more to the arrest and soon Brunetti and Vianelli become suspicious when they hear that someone might want to harm the friend.Most of the story takes place in the secretive island

I am hooked on Leon's series. Why? Her characters, and the powerfully visual way she evokes her environment. Commissario Brunetti , like all central detective characters, sets the tone of her works. He is human, humane, leads a normal home life, hates guns and violence, loves where he lives and deplores, like New Yorkers, the negative changes in his world and the onslaught of tourists. But most of all, he has an Italian "che sera, sera"...many of these mysteries are not resolved in favor of

Another great little slice of Venetian life with Commissario Brunetti. This didn't have the most interesting plot since it was mostly about chemical pollution but it did send Brunetti to a nice trattoria for lunch - for regular readers, an essential part of the series. The artichoke and ham lasagna sounded so good that now I want this book - !

Once again this crime is insidious rather than a murder. It's centered upon Murano, and the glass blowing venues, the different furnaces. And some politics too, because the President of the Glass Blowers Assoc. is trying to make a play and plan to escalate his power and celebrity to run for Mayor of the Veneto.The first half was far more fun than the second half. The last quarter was all about sludge and other secondary products of cast off nature from the glass blowing process of heat and

Love how these mysteries are never tied up neatly with a bow, but are left ugly and messy, much as she portrays Italian politics. And of course all the references to the food and Brunetti's family are wonderful.