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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0E2A_orrAX/ Donna Leon - Unto Us a Son Is Given: At this point, we should simply marvel at Leon’s ability to match religious phrases (ie, the title) with the theme. #cursorybookreviews #cursoryreviews Commissario Brunetti’s father-in-law, Conte Orazio Falier, rarely asks his son-in-law for a favor, so Brunetti is both surprised and alarmed when the Conte asks Brunetti to look into the affairs of one of the Conte’s oldest friends. Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, a Spaniard by birth, has plans to adopt a much younger man to allow the younger man to inherit his fortune. Italian inheritance laws don’t allow people to will their wealth and possessions to anyone. The law requires most of the estate to go to a person’s relatives. The crime is very slow to develop in this book, but that’s OK. Brunetti’s family is front and center in this one, making up for other books in the series where they hardly appear. The identity of the murderer was not a surprise to me, but the motive for the murder was. It’s nice that Leon can still surprise her readers after so many books in the series. Brunetti's step-father asks Brunetti to look into a matter. His longtime friend and Brunetti's children's godfather wishes to adopt an adult son. This would change the terms of his inheritance. His friends like the Conte question whether the suddenness of the move and fear he might be receiving external influences. The man's background is interesting. Born in Spain, he made a fortune in South America before moving to Italy. The man falls dead in what would appear to be sudden but natural circumstances. When another person connected to the man is strangled in a hotel, Brunetti must get to the truth of the matter. My suspicions never changed and proved correct. It's not the strongest installment in the series, but David Colacci's narration always provides a few hours of listening pleasure. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieCommissario Brunetti (28)
Fiction.
Mystery.
"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room?having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder?a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I love the title. It is a complex labyrinth of emotions and relationships.
We have a bit more personal contact with Guido’s father-in-law, the Count. He is quite agitated and concerned about the ‘plan’ of his best and long-time friend Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda to adopt a much younger man as his son. (who would inherit Gonzalo’s fortune and title upon his death)
Venice and its culture is (as always) the main character here.
A puzzle - trying to figure out everyone’s relationship and reaction to Gonzalo’s decision.
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