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Drawing Conclusions Summary

Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can't shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman's son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered, do little to satisfy Brunetti's nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, perhaps Brunetti can get to the truth and find some measure of justice.

Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon's status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction.

Drawing Conclusions Reviews

"Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn't always end in an arrest or a trial." - Publishers Weekly

"Starred Review. Brunetti walks around Venice a lot in this novel, and when he walks, he muses. And when he muses, the reader listens almost hypnotically, transfixed by the somehow ennobling ordinariness of this remarkable man's humanity but also by the subtlety of his mind and his absolute refusal to succumb to the tyranny of bureaucrats and moralists." - Booklist

"Hard to believe - but let's be grateful - that Commissario Guido Brunetti is on his 20th case.... Essential for mystery collections." - Library Journal

"As languid in its movement as a gondola ride. Yet none of Brunetti's earlier cases are as remorselessly clear in connecting the delicately comic anti-authoritarian gestures Brunetti winks at to the miasma of corruption that hangs over his beloved Venice." - Kirkus Reviews

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Donna Leon Author Biography

Donna Leon is the author of nineteen international best-selling novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, all of which have been critically acclaimed. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon has lived in Venice for over twenty-five years.

Commissario Guido Brunetti series order to 2010

1. Death at la Fenice, 1992
2. Death in a Strange Country, 1993
3. Dressed for Death, 1994, first published as The Anonymous Venetian
4. A Ventian Reckoning, 1995, first published as Death and Judgement
5. Acqua Alta, 1996, first published as Death in High Water
6. Quietly in Their Sleep, 1997, first published as...

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