The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Fatal Remedies: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Paperback)

from thornton37814

Brunetti finds his own wife in police custody after she admits to having committed an act of civil disobedience in protest of a travel agency that operates sex tours to Asian countries. It isn't long before someone involved with that travel agency is found dead. Brunetti must work through all pos...

from diana.hauser

Fatal Remedies is Book #8 in Donna Leon's award-winning Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Italy and especially the city of Venice take center stage. “In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the cul...

from sleahey

Paola Brunetti, frustrated by the lack of any legal recourse, decides to take matters into her own hands to protest a local travel agency's tours to third world countries for the purpose of connecting tourists with child prostitutes. She throws a rock through a travel agency's windows, setting di...

from auntieknickers

This Commissario Brunetti novel starts out as though it's going to be about one sort of crime and corruption and turns out to be about something else entirely. It all begins when Brunetti gets a middle-of-the-night phone call. His wife, the aristocratic English lit professor Paola, has admitted t...

from waldhaus1

I am tempted to think of this book as a particularly personal statement by the author. As a woman writing about a man, pretending to represent the mind of a very clever man, she calls on some issues important to her as a woman, even using Paola to make the point that a man can never really unders...