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Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon
3.0
Commissario Guido Brunetti is wakened from a sound sleep to be told about an act of vandalism... for which his wife, Paola, has been arrested. His principled wife had been infuriated at learning that travel agencies were promoting thinly disguised sex tours to remote vacation spots, where men could seek sex with minor-age children. So she threw a rock through the window of one of the travel agencies as an attempt to focus attention on the barely legal operations. The arresting officers politely do not report the incident, and an embarrassed Brunetti takes his wife home.
No sooner has the window been repaired than Paola repeats her protest, but this time she is booked by Landi, an acolyte of the Sicilian, Lt. Scarpa, Brunetti's in-house nemesis. This results in an uncomfortable meeting with the travel agency's owner, Dr. Mitri, and his surprisingly silent lawyer Avvocato Zambino, in Vice-Questore Patta's office. Mitri seems graciously willing to accept damages for the vandalism... but Brunetti finds himself refusing to speak for his wife. Patta is sufficiently incensed to put Brunetti on administrative leave and send him home.
Two days later, Mitri is murdered and a note is left at the scene referring to paedophiles and the people who help them. Did Paola's act lead to the man's death?
Brunetti and his team pursue various leads, while also trying to salvage a case in which a witness has been intimidated into altering his testimony. The specter of the Mafia lurks in the background. Could the murderer have some connection to the Mafia's expanding influence? What was the seemingly spotless Dr. Mitri involved in? As often happens in Donna Leon's tales, justice cannot be taken for granted. Only the Brunetti family holds firm at the center of these stories.
No sooner has the window been repaired than Paola repeats her protest, but this time she is booked by Landi, an acolyte of the Sicilian, Lt. Scarpa, Brunetti's in-house nemesis. This results in an uncomfortable meeting with the travel agency's owner, Dr. Mitri, and his surprisingly silent lawyer Avvocato Zambino, in Vice-Questore Patta's office. Mitri seems graciously willing to accept damages for the vandalism... but Brunetti finds himself refusing to speak for his wife. Patta is sufficiently incensed to put Brunetti on administrative leave and send him home.
Two days later, Mitri is murdered and a note is left at the scene referring to paedophiles and the people who help them. Did Paola's act lead to the man's death?
Brunetti and his team pursue various leads, while also trying to salvage a case in which a witness has been intimidated into altering his testimony. The specter of the Mafia lurks in the background. Could the murderer have some connection to the Mafia's expanding influence? What was the seemingly spotless Dr. Mitri involved in? As often happens in Donna Leon's tales, justice cannot be taken for granted. Only the Brunetti family holds firm at the center of these stories.