A mystery with a disturbing twist | Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Nice athmosphere, but no thrill | Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery | Donna Leon

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	• Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Donna Leon Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One more excellent book from Donna Leon

It's so colourfull and gripping from the beginning to the end. Even our kids are reading it with pleasure!

A mystery with a disturbing twist

This book will please not only fans of good mysteries, but also opera lovers. Commissario Brunetti has to solve the death of a famous conductor who is poisoned during a performance of "La Traviata". All the usual stereotypical characters of the stage are presents (the gay director, the primadonna etc.), and all of them are suspects. But what begins as a simple murder mystery takes a chilling turn as more and more about the murdered conductor becomes known.

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Nice athmosphere, but no thrill

A fameous conducter, Mr Wellauer, dies during one of his presentations in ?La fenice", the opera of Venice. Vice comissario Brunetti gets this case, and finds out that it was cyanide, that killed Wellauer. So Brunetti has to interview the people who knew him, but there are a lot of suspects.

I think that DEATH AT LA FENICE is a quite boring book. Why ? During the hole book, there's only the view of Guido Brunetti. The result is that you see only the very slow progress in the case. And there's no action too. Altough I think that Donna Leon created a very nice athmosphere (e.g. when Brunetti is walking around Venice) and shows a realistic picture of the man Brunetti, DEATH AT LA FENICE is a thriller with no thrill.

Peace to the world, Ricardo ?Double P" Angeli

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