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Drawing Conclusions

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A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead on the floor. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Commissario Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for abused women and that her apartment was a safe-house.
Convinced that this is the lead he has been looking for, Brunetti begins his search for answers. But as he sets out to discover the truth behind her death, he is drawn into a decades-old story of lies and deceit that has blighted love and ruined lives - and has claimed this innocent woman as its newest victim. Brunetti's investigation takes him deep into the dark heart of his beloved Venice.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Commissario Guido Brunetti, of Venice, returns to solve his twentieth mystery. Who murdered Costanza Altavilla, a 60-year-old retired teacher, and why? David Colacci's deep, lightly accented voice describes the beauty and decay of the floating city, along with its winding canals and disturbing crimes. As Brunetti peels back the layers of Senora Altavilla's life, he eventually discovers she helped women escape domestic violence. The story requires the listener's full attention as the clues unfold in Colacci's subtle performance. Colacci shines as Leon lays out the intricacies of Brunetti's investigation. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 14, 2011
      Leon's fine 20th Commisario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2010's A Question of Belief) explores violence against women and the treatment of the elderly. The Venetian medical examiner has ruled that Costanza Altavilla, a widow in her 60s, died of a heart attack, but Brunetti has his doubts. The discovery of several changes of clothes in various sizes in the deceased's modest apartment and Brunetti's talks with the insightful Signorina Elettra reveal that Altavilla was running a safe house for women escaping domestic violence. Could one of the abusive men have confronted Altavilla and scared her to death? Brunetti's investigation takes him to an old-age home, where Altavilla volunteered, in search of answers. Leon provides a vivid view of Venice, balancing the city's "glory days" with the reality of "the flaking dandruff of sun-blasted paint peeling from shutters." Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn't always end in an arrest or a trial.

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