Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Hardcover): The Girl of His Dreams (Hardcover)

from thornton37814

Brunetti is unofficially researching a religious group suspected of underhanded means of fundraising for a friend of his. His official investigation is into the death of a Romany/Gypsy girl who was drowned in a canal. The autopsy revealed she had a venereal disease at her young age. Brunetti is d...

from mojacobs

I like the Commissario Brunetti books a lot, but must admit this one is very thin in the crime/mystery department. For lovers of the Brunetti family it is a good enough read, but if this were the first Brunetti book that I read, I doubt I would buy more from the series.

from mojacobs

I like the Commissario Brunetti books a lot, but must admit this one is very thin in the crime/mystery department. For lovers of the Brunetti family it is a good enough read, but if this were the first Brunetti book that I read, I doubt I would buy more from the series.

from SkyRider

One of the features that run through all Donna Leon's Venetian crime novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti is Brunetti's (and presumably Leon's) somewhat jaundiced view of what justice looks like in modern Venice. In some cases this is because Brunetti's superiors are loathe to move against...

from cyderry

As this series goes along I've come to the conclusion that it's not the mysteries that draw me but the writing and the characters. Guido Brunetti with so much authority as the Commissario of Homicide is still sensitive and willing to be patient in trying to solve the murder. He wrests from each o...