Uniform Justice
2 journalers for this copy...
I have enjoyed previous books in this series. All of the blurbs are from people I never heard of.
From the back cover:
A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the turth behind this tragedy. The cadet's father is a doctor and former politician, a man of impeccable integrity, all too rare in Itralian politics. Devastated, and convinced that his son's death could not have been suicide, Dr. Moro inexplicably avoids talking to the police or involoving Brunetti in the investigation. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?"
This will be the third book in this series for me to read and I see a familiar story line. Those of privilege trying to protect their own and those of Brunetti's world trying to be kept out. The thing is, Brunetti's wife is from the ranks of privilege so her books either show him butting heads with his in-laws, pumping them for information or using his wife as a passport.
But she always offers an enjoyable view of Venice itself and Italy (and Italians) in general.
From the back cover:
A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the turth behind this tragedy. The cadet's father is a doctor and former politician, a man of impeccable integrity, all too rare in Itralian politics. Devastated, and convinced that his son's death could not have been suicide, Dr. Moro inexplicably avoids talking to the police or involoving Brunetti in the investigation. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?"
This will be the third book in this series for me to read and I see a familiar story line. Those of privilege trying to protect their own and those of Brunetti's world trying to be kept out. The thing is, Brunetti's wife is from the ranks of privilege so her books either show him butting heads with his in-laws, pumping them for information or using his wife as a passport.
But she always offers an enjoyable view of Venice itself and Italy (and Italians) in general.
I enjoyed it.
Mostly about the political corruption of Italy and Venice, in particular.
And how the sins of the fathers can be visited upon the sons. And how mindless the military can be.
Mostly about the political corruption of Italy and Venice, in particular.
And how the sins of the fathers can be visited upon the sons. And how mindless the military can be.
RELEASE NOTES:
To be released at the December Meet Up - unless the weather is too bad.
To be released at the December Meet Up - unless the weather is too bad.
plan on reading it
