Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna LeonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Donna Leon’s 15th book in her Commissario Brunetti Series and once again we are back in the beautiful city of Venice.
It's springtime and Commissario Brunetti asked by his assistant, Vianello, to help him rescue his good friend who has being arrested for taking part in an environmental demonstration. But there may be more to the arrest and soon Brunetti and Vianelli become suspicious when they hear that someone might want to harm the friend.
Most of the story takes place in the secretive island of Murano,
home of the world-famous glass factories, where a murder of a furnace worker is discovered in one of the glass factories.
Environmental concerns , pollution, corruption, politics, greed, vanity, food, family life, Dante's Inferno........and a fantastic and well-researched history of the age-old art of glass making.
Signorina Elletra is just as fabulous and Vice-Questore Patta, Brunetti's boss, just as stupid and vain. I adore the way the characters have developed throughout this series. We have become very familiar with them. A new character, Paolo Foa, is introduced to replace the Questura's boat pilot, Bonsuan, who was killed in book #10 and he's quite an interesting character and I look forward to his future appearances.
The plot was fairly slow - the actual murder doesn't take place until halfway through but we do get to enjoy the glassmaking information, the sunny spring days in Venice, eating and drinking and reading Dante's Inferno.
An enjoyable addition.
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