Blood from a Stone audiobook
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Review #1
Blood from a Stone audiobook free
Written 10 years ago, this centers on the execution-style murder of one of the African sellers of fake designer handbags who display their wares on sheets in Venice after the regular shops close. At the time, the immigrants mostly came from Senegal so the problem is somewhat different to today’s migrant crisis in Europe.
As always, Donna Leon keeps the mystery moving along at a steady pace, but the true joy of reading her Brunetti series comes in the musings and reflections of Commissario Brunetti and his family about the state of affairs in Italy and human nature in general. His passionately liberal wife Paola explodes when their daughter makes a disparaging remark about the victim, which soon has everyone examining his own attitude towards migrants, But Brunetti also discovers how knockoff sales affect the livelihoods of the existing shopkeepers. And then there’s the food….
I never tire of reading these, and this is one of the best.
Review #2
Blood from a Stone audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Review #3
Audiobook Blood from a Stone by Donna Leonm
To anyone who has read other books in this series and wonders if this is a worthy successor, it certainly is. I haven’t read a book from this series in a while, although I have read a dozen or more. For the past month I have been struggling through the last four or five books I picked up (decent books but my attention wasn’t being grabbed). I picked this up and raced through it. These books aren’t tightly plotted thrillers. Here we alternate the usual Guido wandering through his days, his lunches, his family, combined with the usual main character being the unbelievable corruption of the government and too many of the people. Guido, of course, is the one honest cop, other than the illegal searches, investigation by getting information out of channels, going against direct orders, and blackmailing local businessmen.
Review #4
Audio Blood from a Stone narrated by David Colacci
A compelling read. An excellent book. As a friend said to me about the U.S., ” the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.” Apparently the same is true of police forces. Maybe it would translate the same in Italy using the word, “Euro.” The depressing fact is that this is true of most, if not all, countries. Justice and fair play are too often entangled and overwhelmed by greed and prejudice.
Brunetti was told to leave the case and trust that his superiors knew what they were doing, though they thwarted attempts to discover who the murdered man was, set up a fake raid to kill those they wanted dead,… but after all, Italy (read private companies) in the form of Euros benefits and an African country is “pacified.”
But the book cannot lead to despair with Brunetti and Vianello and their friends doing what they can to right the wrongs and at least understand what is actually happening around them.
Review #5
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Rather than your formulaic murder mystery, Leon’s books are recommended for her tackling of social issues, her depiction of Brunetti’s family life, and her character development. The ending was an abrupt surprise, but life is like that sometimes. In this book she tackles the issues of illegal immigration, racial inequality, and blood diamonds. Don’t miss it.
I am a self confessed fan of Donna Leon having read all fourteen Brunetti books and I have just bought the next in the series – which may be why I may be feeling a bit guilty about giving ‘Blood From A Stone’ only three stars. The atmospheric background of Venice is still there and the usual characters are still interesting but I felt everything else was a bit flat. The story begins well with an African street trader being singled out and executed by two professional assassins. Exciting stuff! Then, for me, the plot fizzed out and nothing much happens for far too long. It’s always nice to read about Brunetti’s family, in this case his wife (appropriately enough a lecturer) and daughter, but I felt their involvement was used to sermonise about the plight of African immigrants trying to eke out a living by selling dodgy handbags to wealthy tourists in a prosperous European country. Even the morals of buying cut flowers were touched on at one point. The immigrants, subsisting in poor accommodation often one step ahead of the law, are dealt with sympathetically both by the author and her fictitious police officers – as are a couple of burgling drug addicts with AIDS who are shoehorned into the plot with another wisp of sermonising (tourists don’t fare so well). The plot does pick up eventually and gathers pace and, not for the first time, Brunetti is left feeling helpless at the unfairness of life generally and the Machiavellian Italian justice system. Perhaps after fourteen books I’ve come to expect too much.
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