Death and Judgment audiobook
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Review #1
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I dislike books that contain explicit descriptions of rape and murdering or snuffing of women. This novel goes into great detail about the humiliation and shock of a woman who is stripped and gang raped by six men. Afterward her throat is slit and this is all recorded on video to sell. Guido’s teenage daughter comes into possesion of the film and views it. She is shocked but gets over it unrealistically quickly to facilitate the pace of the novel. The lawyer and wealthy nen who comisioned the film for profit are depicted as enjoying the woman’s humiliation and death. The book tries to expose the treatment of sex trafficked women but provides voyeuristic detail . This reader was deeply shocked with disturbed breathing and emotional distress. While the issue needs to be discussed there is no need to produce detail drawing the reader into the ‘experience.’
Review #2
Death and Judgment audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
The case in this book has to do with snuff films. Donna! Who knew! I’m shocked 😉
I’ve recently become hooked on the Brunetti series and am working my way through it from the beginning. I’ve purchased more than a dozen. As usual, this book has an unexpected ending that brings out my screams for more justice. But it’s real and it’s profound. Guido is a magnificent human being. His family is getting more and more involved and interested in what goes on in crime fighting in their hometown of Venice. His daughter recovered unduly quickly from learning of the existence sex slavery in Italy, and that puzzled me. But I nevertheless look forward to more of the family interaction. Guido and Paola are people of enormous integrity, and it’s rubbing off on their kids. Reality causes Guido to make some independent judgments about what is ethical and fair, but I really like the guy. I don’t know whether I want to try the series of video episodes because I already have my picture of this man who is not a kick boxing lawman but more of a Sherlock Holmes.
I have one nit picky complaint that has nothing to do with the 5-star rating. I read the book, loved it, had much I wanted to discuss about it with my sister. The “Loan capability” is not enabled! It’s an ebook distributed by Amazon, not by another publisher, and it was on sale when I bought it. Now it’s back to full price and I want to lend it rather than buy another copy. Why can’t I lend it to my sister? Donna, can you get that fixed?
Review #3
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Despite my love and respect for Donna Leon books, I think she was going through a dark time when she wrote this. Or maybe she just got fed up with all the junk that goes on in Venice and elsewhere and decided to have Commissario Brunetti tackle some difficult issues. The book begins with a tractor trailer accident in which the contents of the trailer are destroyed – lumber and a load of foreign women! But life went on without a concern until all of a sudden 3 leading businessmen are killed and Brunetti is assigned to the case. Throughout the book we are forced to face the financial corruption and bribery that goes on in Italy, the inequality of the Italian judicial system where wealthy corrupt officials and politicians get their crimes basically swept under the rug, while pickpockets and other minor criminals suffer harsher penalties. We also get a very up close view of the sex trafficking and pornography industry with a final result that is both shocking and yet totally believable. Wonderful writing, but a tough topic, a topic we need to understand and address. Brunetti does his best but sometimes the best is not enough.
Review #4
Audio Death and Judgment narrated by David Colacci
Though she has lived in Venice for more than a quarter-century, Donna Leon has insisted that the Commissario Brunetti series of detective novels she sets in Venice not be translated from English into Italian. There’s no mystery here. Leon’s picture of Italian society is merciless.
In Death and Judgment, the fourth in her Commissario Brunetti series, Leon writes, “villains ruled the land. All, or what seemed like all, of the major political figures who had ruled the country since Brunetti was a child had been named in accusation, named again on different charges, and had even begun to name one another, and yet not one of them had been tried and sentenced, though the coffers of the state had been sucked dry.”
Again: Brunetti “often thought that the only safe procedure a person could undergo at the Ospedale Civile was an autopsy. It was the only time a patient ran no risk.”
Invariably, Brunetti is forced to work around the orders of his boss, Vice-Questore Patta, whose overriding concern is that the Commissario not jeopardize the favor he enjoys from the local elite. A typical admonition from Patta runs along these lines: “‘Brunetti, don’t go stirring up trouble with this.’”
Despite Brunetti’s brilliant detective work, the end result of his investigations all too frequently is a cover-up, leaving the Commissario despondent. “Brunetti knew this mood and almost feared it, this recurring certainty of the futility of everything he did. Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?”
As the long-suffering Brunetti notes in a conversation with his secret collaborator, Vice-Questore Patta’s extremely competent secretary, “‘For fifty years, ever since the end of the war, all we’ve ever been is lied to. By the government, the church, the political parties, by industry and business and the military.’
“‘And the police?’ she asked.
“‘Yes,’ he agreed with no hesitation whatsoever, ‘and the police.’”
Is this an accurate picture of Italy today? I haven’t spent enough time in the country or traveled widely enough there to be able to answer the question. Perhaps it’s relevant that Death and Judgment, published in 1995, was only the fourth book in the now 25-strong Commissario Brunetti series. But, other than the switch from the lire to the euro, I suspect that things haven’t changed that much in Italy in the last 20 years. Certainly, the recurring news reports about Italy’s nonstop political game of musical chairs isn’t encouraging.
It may be no exaggeration to say that Death and Judgment, like the other novels I’ve read in the Commissario Brunetti series, is a work of social commentary as well as a murder mystery. Like many of her contemporaries, Donna Leon demonstrates a mastery of sociology as well as skill in crafting a suspenseful novel.
Review #5
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Another book in the Brunetti series and, as always, a joy to read. Thoroughly recommended. I have all her books
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