Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Hardcover): Earthly Remains (Hardcover)(Large Print)

from pennykaplan

Brunetti takes a couple of weeks sick leave to spend on an island in the Venice lagoon. He reunites with an old friend of his father's whose sudden death prompts him to investigate and learn about decades old pollution of the lagoon. Not much mystery but great setting and characters!

from

One of the very best of this series..Wonderfull setting, a beautiful island in the Venetian laguna.,full of apricot trees and flooded with brillant sunshine...Brunetti is spending some weeks in this idealistic scenery so he can escape from the stress of his job, but can he? Good story,interesting...

from cyderry

Commissario Brunetti has a very unusual reaction during an interrogation and realizes that he needs a break from his stressful position at Questora. He accepts an opportunity to rest at a relatives villa on the laguna and spread the days rowing - not thinking not feeling. When the man that he was...

from DrLed

Synopsis: Brunetti needs a break so he stays in a house on an island. He meets one of his father's best friends and goes rowing with him. After a particularly bad storm, the man is found drowned. Brunetti must decide if his death is accidental, suicide, or murder. Review: I knew this had to end b...

from sleahey

As a Brunetti fan, I was somewhat taken aback by the slower pace of this latest installment in the series. After a rash response during an interrogation (very funny!), Brunetti realizes that he needs a break from work and goes by himself to retreat to an island estate of a relative. While there h...