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May 21, 2018DorisWaggoner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
While any novel about Commissario Brunetti and his now-familiar family, friends, and colleagues is a pleasure, this one doesn't quite live up to her usual standards. There are too many subplots, red herrings, dangers to too many people we've come to care about. The story line seems fragmented, and Brunetti's more ambivalent than usual about the morality of the solution to the main mystery. Greed is a major motive for many of the characters involved, but Brunetti's usual cynicism proves this assumption wrong. The interesting question is what he'll do when he's proved wrong.