Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Hardcover): The Golden Egg (Hardcover)

from DrLed

Synopsis: A deaf/mute man is found dead, an apparent suicide victim. Paola is concerned because she saw him working in a dry cleaners she frequents, but never really paid attention to him. She wonders if more contact with people would have made his life more bearable. When Brunetti investigates, ...

from ebyrne41

I had the pleasure recently of meeting and talking with Donna Leon at a book signing in Dubray Bookshop in Dublin, at which she described this novel as a "love letter to language". That just added to my desire to get started on it, which I did soon after. In this, her latest, Commissario Brunetti...

from librarian1204

Thank you, Ms Leon, for the return of Brunetti. Different but the same. The family, the food, Venice, the fellow police are the same but the difference is the quest for answers to a case pushed at Brunetti by his wife. Very well done with a conclusion that will stay with the reader. 

from thornton37814

A "deaf and dumb" young man who worked at the dry cleaners died. Paola feels guilty she knows so little about him and urges Brunetti to learn more. When he begins probing, he discovers no official records of the man. He brings other colleagues at the Questura into this investigation. Patta assign...

from literaryrunner

Brunetti is back on the job in another terrific novel by Donna leon. After my dislike of her singleton novel, I was happily back in Venice with Guido and family. Leon has been getting darker and darker in her Brunetti series and this one is actually not about a murder, but about a strange death a...