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The Temptation of Forgiveness
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 27
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
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Important information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido Brunetti is tasked with uncovering the culprit. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, a friend of his wife's comes asking for his help, fearful that her son is using drugs.
A few weeks later, the woman's husband is found unconscious at the foot of a bridge.
With only contradictory leads to follow, Brunetti navigates his way through Venice's underworld in an attempt to understand who is responsible for the vicious attack. But as he gets closer to discovering what happened, Brunetti is faced with a difficult truth: sometimes, it's the best intentions that lead to the darkest of consequences . . .
'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The Times
'Enchanting . . . drolly amusing . . . it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging' New York Times Book Review
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- Mrs Madeleine Oswald
- 11-02-19
Spoilt by narration
I enjoyed the book which was well crafted as always. But I would expect a narrator to take the trouble to find out how Italian words are pronounced. - eg Guido, vigili and many others.
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- AC
- 12-01-24
Spoiled by narrator
David Sibley has achieved the impossible - his narration makes the characters two dimensional, the plot drag on to a weary conclusion, and Donna Leon's evocative descriptions of Venice as appealing as a trip to Slough. Missing the sympathetic narrative style of David Rintoul.
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- P. Hughes
- 07-08-18
Forgiveness
Donna Leon is such a compassionate and intuitive writer and I adore her hero.... This story was as usual quite excellent, but I was so disappointed in Brunetti's final decision... no spoiler alert here. It's just that his action or rather non action reflected the title's premise but not Bruneti's essential goodness and compassion. He wasn't punishing the right person by his inaction and it seemed so unlike the character I have come to see as a shining light of the quite impossible balance of pragmatism and humanity.
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- alastairl39
- 07-01-19
Book 27
The story flows along smoothly overall, although Brunetti does not seem quite his usual self.
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- Frances
- 10-08-18
homework needed
As always Donna Leon's settings and characters are excellent, but the narrator's pronunciation of quite basic Italian words is flawed which becomes irritating. Perhaps he could do some homework on this ....
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- Andrea Edan
- 25-03-19
As good as the all the Brunetti series
I like Donna Leon and have read all the Brunetti series. This one doesn't disappoint and has all the likeable and not-so-likeable characters from the rest of the series. Fortunately she doesn't rely on previous stories and the history of the characters and all the books stand nicely on their own so one can dip into them as and when.
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- Martha
- 31-01-21
not only excellent crime novel it's so much more!
loved it. Donna Leon not only writes excellent crime novels but also gives us an insight into Italy today.
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- lynne
- 18-11-23
Boring
Not the best a tedious listen! Very disappointed. Never ending. With a very disappointing ending
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- Michael Lynes
- 22-09-18
Good story poor narration bring back David Rintoul
Usual high standard Brunetti tale but the narration is awful. Narrator can not even pronounce Guido properly. Can we have David Rintoul back for the next one please ?
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