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Donna Leon. (2014). By Its Cover. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

Donna Leon. 2014. By Its Cover. Recorded Books, Inc.

Donna Leon, By Its Cover. Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

Donna Leon. By Its Cover. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2014.

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Donna Leon' s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture. In the pages of Leon' s novels, the beloved conversations of the Brunetti family have drawn on topics of art and literature, but books are at the heart of this novel in a way they never have been before. One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem— the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn' t exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent years reading at the library turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty.

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   • content: David Colacci has voiced Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti, of the Venice police, throughout most of the series. Fans will be comfortable with his warm narration and with Brunetti's reassuring cogitations in this 23rd outing. Pages are being cut from antiquarian books in Venice's libraries, and Brunetti must track an American professor whom no one has heard of and an ex-priest who must surely be a witness to the crimes. The plot builds slowly, with too much repetition. But Colacci's voice soothes the impatient listener, and regulars will be content to catch up with Brunetti and his family. Sadly, though, just when the story seems to be filling out, it abruptly ends. Listeners will be bereft--and wanting more. C.A.T. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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     February 3, 2014
     In bestseller Leon’s elegant 23rd Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2013’s The Golden Egg), a Venetian library director reports that several valuable old books have been either stolen or damaged. The likely thief and vandal masqueraded as an American professor, but he has vanished, and his credentials prove false. With few leads, Brunetti turns to a potential witness—a library patron and former priest dubbed Tertullian (after the early Christian author) by the staff because he spends his days reading the church fathers’ works. Before the police can interview him, the seemingly innocuous Tertullian is brutally murdered—and Brunetti discovers some of the stolen volumes in his home. This character-driven novel looks at the ravages of rare book theft on libraries, and, more broadly, the destructive effects of contemporary greed—exemplified by cruise ships damaging Venice’s fragile waterways—on cultural heritage. Leon’s skillful evocation of the city’s charms, culture, and history more than compensates for an abrupt ending that might leave some readers unsatisfied.

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