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Fatal Remedies
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Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon (Brunetti #8) (Oct/Nov 24)
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This really did show a dilemma between Brunetti and his wife. Paola. In her demonstration against what was known as "Sex-tours", she takes a hefty stone and smashes the window of a tour shop. She stays there and waits for the police to come. As this is an embarrassment to the two officers, they quickly inform Brunetti so he takes her home. He tells her that he would get into a lot of trouble. if this was known. So she does it again!. Brunetti, because of this, is at first suspended from duty, but when a murder among the group of people Paola has highlighted is committed, he is immediately recalled , this leading him to a big drug operation.There was quite a bit of action in this story, but I was finding it somewhat disjointed, and difficult to keep track of. Not one of the better stories .
Sandy wrote: "Guess I should move the buddy reads up to the top of my TBR! I can't read them too early as I forget details."Same here! This is my first time reading this series, and i enjoy the narrator on Audible, and my library so far has all the books, so yay!
Jill wrote: "This really did show a dilemma between Brunetti and his wife. Paola. In her demonstration against what was known as "Sex-tours", she takes a hefty stone and smashes the window of a tour shop. She s..."I agree, it almost felt like two books - conflict between a married couple, then corporate corruption and a drug scam/murder mystery - disjointed is a fair description, i think. Looking back on it, I almost wonder if the author thought Guido and Paola had been too perfectly harmonious, there had to be some conflict to keep things interesting?
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So far, I find Paola's actions rather hard to believe. Surely someone in her position would be more likely to hold demonstrations and get a public campaign going rather than smashing a window in the middle of the night, with the danger to her husband's career and the general public not even knowing why. But I can see that it dramatises the conflict between her and Guido, and maybe it will make more sense to me as I read on.
That's what I thought. I thought she was more likely to get her students demonstrating in front of the tour operators.
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Judy wrote: "The group has caught up with me on this series! I've started this but am not very far in as yet. Great to be back with Guido. So far, I find Paola's actions rather hard to believe. Surely someone..."
Yes! Here in the US there were campus demonstrations last year over the war in Gaza, and professors were along with the students. I’m sure Paola would find others sympathetic with her feelings about sex tours.
Jill wrote: "That's what I thought. I thought she was more likely to get her students demonstrating in front of the tour operators."Yes, it seemed really short-sighted on her part - demonstrating would be more likely to result in action, I’d think.
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Not sure if I read this or not. It sounds familiar and yet not.Paola throwing a rock in this instance would be perfectly in character for her. She comes from a wealthy family, not to mention her husband's job, so might have a sense of immunity from repercussions. The wealthy frequently feel the laws do not necessarily apply to them in the same way that they apply to the average Joe (or perhaps it would be Giovanni in this case) in the street.
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Susan wrote: "I could see her writing an angry article and then targeting the shop window, but not just doing it without people even really understanding why. Such an action was so random and even though it did ..."Exactly-if you want to bring attention to a social injustice or ill, you need society to be aware of it, so people can demand it be addressed, through policy or legislative changes. Random acts of vandalism may not even be seen to be connected to the very ill you’re trying to address. And it might turn the public on the vandal, thinking they are just seeking attention, throwing a tantrum by destroying property, not seeking to right a wrong.
As an academic, she should be aware that this was an ineffective, pointless and frankly immature and short-sighted way to express her anger at the situation.
As money seems to talk there, I thought she might have got her mother’s friends to take up the cause, bringing it some attention.
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Susan wrote: "Yes, Jan makes a good point. I could see her with a placard outside and then lobbing a brick. Mainly, I could see her writing something and having heated coffee mornings :)"Yes!
Susan wrote: "Yes, Jan makes a good point. I could see her with a placard outside and then lobbing a brick. Mainly, I could see her writing something and having heated coffee mornings :)"Money and connections, yes - her family has them both!
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti. His wife. As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is then linked to a suspicious accidental death and his superiors need quick results. But now Brunetti's own career is under threat as his professional and personal lives clash - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink...
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