The 14 (approx.) surveys Guido Brunetti Venetian read all with interest and pleasure, both as puzzles police, as immersed in Italian society, and as sightseeing tours of Venice out the beaten track for tourists. The central character of the books by Donna Leon, is Venice's labyrinthine streets, palaces rotting, its lagoon dragging corpses from time to time, slightly corrupt his soul, his tongue, a dialect that does not include the Venetians of birth.
We follow with surprise or amusement the vagaries of the investigation having to do with corruption or incompetence of all state services, flavored with his strange subterranean social relations between the Venetians, made of clientelism and exchange of favors, we observed the gap between Italy's North and South, we sometimes see the tentacles of the Mafia reach even the proud and ancient city of the Doges. We also monitors
Commissioner returning home, tasting dishes for him and alien to us, sharing his life with his wife and children, and despite the distance we find ourselves here in this small family unit, tasteful but not too idealized.
We discover the world of small police station with his boss politician and aristocrat to the end of its luxury shoes, his secretaries or stupid hacker genius, its officers cruel, or more or are bounded as honor their uniform, to sacrifice sometimes.
And then we find the same flaws, leading to the same violent deaths in the world.
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