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Another excellent entry in this series; Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a former nun who has worked in his mother’s nursing home. The young nun had been transferred to another nursing home, then left her order after becoming suspicious at the sudden deaths of some of her elderly patients. She’s not sure what has happened, but the reaction from her superiors made her suspicious.
Brunetti is naturally concerned, this woman has kindly and devotedly cared for his mother. He tries to investig ...more
Brunetti is naturally concerned, this woman has kindly and devotedly cared for his mother. He tries to investig ...more
This begins with a woman visiting Brunetti. Her name now is Maria Testa, but she was formally a nun, known to him as Suor'Immaculata, who ministered to his mother in a care home. She tells him that where she was moved to another care home, five unexplained deaths have occurred, all put down as heart-attacks. This is what has made her leave the sisterhood, and she wants them investigated. At first he is reluctant, but as he looks into them, he finds that all is not as it should be at the particul
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Commissario Brunetti is enjoying Patta's absence (on a second honeymoon in Thailand, after recent marital woes) when he is visited by a former nun. She had worked in the care home where Brunetti's mother resides, but has since left the order and, as Maria Testa, is now working in the laundry of a private clinic. Maria Testa says that five elderly people have died in a year and that all of those who died had no visitors and remembered the nursing home in their wills. When she questioned this she
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Donna Leon has a real hard go at the Catholic Church in this 6th outing for our Venetian Inspector, and in particular the shadowy organisation "Opus Dei" which seeks to return Italy to government by cleric! A 26 year old nun, on the run from her convent (where she has lived since age 15!) visits Brunetti with tales of mysterious deaths in a church run OAP care home. The suggestion is that the church has profited from their demise through gifts and amended wills. Brunetti investigates using his m
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Generally love books in this excellent mystery series. This mystery was OK, but the unrelenting hammering against religion and the Italian Catholic church and all its well-known faults - including bringing in the controversial and secretive, conspiracy-theory lover's Opus Dei spectre (generally an over-the-top signal) - just got tiresome and at times seemed to overshadow the mystery. No problem with the viewpoint and shedding daylight in fiction on significant real-world issues; it just felt lik
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Excellent series, excellent entry and probably timely when it was published.
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