Leon, Donna
Uniform justice Donna Leon. - New York, N.Y. : Penguin/Grove Press, 2010, c2003. - 258 p. ; 20 cm. - Commissario Brunetti Book 12 .
Originally published in the United States of America by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate the death of a young cadet. The boy has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro is clearly and understandably devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of the other witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greater than this one death?
9780143117070 0143117076
Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character)
Police--Italy--Venice
Military education
Military cadets
Venice (Italy)
Leo 30
Uniform justice Donna Leon. - New York, N.Y. : Penguin/Grove Press, 2010, c2003. - 258 p. ; 20 cm. - Commissario Brunetti Book 12 .
Originally published in the United States of America by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate the death of a young cadet. The boy has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro is clearly and understandably devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of the other witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greater than this one death?
9780143117070 0143117076
Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character)
Police--Italy--Venice
Military education
Military cadets
Venice (Italy)
Leo 30