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| Original Title: | Quietly in Their Sleep |
| ISBN: | 033034949X (ISBN13: 9780330349499) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #6 |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
Donna Leon
Paperback | Pages: 310 pages Rating: 3.91 | 5736 Users | 430 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Death of Faith (Commissario Brunetti #6) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 310 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2006 by Pan Books (UK) (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Cultural. Italy. Fiction. Crime |
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3,5 starsCommissario Guido Brunetti’s latest “case” in the 6th book in Commissario Brunetti Series by Donna Leon, starts off with a visit to his office by a young woman, who he doesn’t recognize but seems familiar to him, claiming that she suspects that several patients who had died unexpectedly and odd circumstances in the nursing home she had previously worked at. She thinks that their deaths may be related to their fortunes being left to the home and the church and not their heirs.
Without any proof of a crime being committed, Brunetti tells her that he will try to find out more about the home. But when she’s left in a coma after injured by a hit and run car, he decides to investigate and look closer to her allegations.
What he discovers is something more and worse than he had thought.
This story deals with so many issues. The Catholic church, greed, corruption, Opus Dei, the handling of priests who have been found guilty of sexual abuse of children and cover-ups.
I find the author’s views on the dynamics of religion in Italy really interesting. One of the parts in the story , where Brunetti and Paola are discussing Chiara’s school report results and the low marks she obtained for religion instructions, and her feelings about that subject….
“I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.” Chiara
And how much value we place on material things. Brunetti and Vianello visit one of the deceased patient’s son and heir, who is more interested in what he owns and has inherited than about his dead mother. And this quote is so true in our society….
““We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them.What makes this series so special are the characters and the sense of place that is Venice.
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Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.”
An enjoyable read.
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Brunetti's superior Patta is on vacation and has left him in charge. But there has been a lull in crime, so Brunetti has been bored for several days when a young woman comes to the police station asking to see him. She is the nun who had been caring for Brunetti's dementia-suffering mother at a nursing home, and who had been transferred to another facility the year before. Now, having left the convent, she comes to Brunetti for help regarding five deaths at the last nursing home, that she fearsI have enjoyed every one of Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti mysteries. Quietly in Their Sleep is the 5th book in the series and was as entertaining as all of the others. A nun, who looked after Brunetti's mother in a home, comes to see Brunetti. She has left her Order and tells Brunetti that she suspects that people in an old age home are being killed for their inheritance. She has little evidence but Brunetti starts to investigate. The ex-nun is hit by a car and remains in a coma at a local
Hmm, I have epic love for Donna Leons books but this one didnt quite do it for me. Perhaps there werent enough descriptions of the food Paola was cooking?
This is the 6th book in the series and I have come to realize that Donna Leon's authorship is very uneven. The previous book, Aqua Alta, is by far the best of the 6 that I have read so it was somewhat of a disappointment to pick up this book and think that it would be of the same quality and it not measuring up at all.The book starts out with a nun coming in to Brunetti's office basically telling him nothing more than that she has left her order because they do not join her in her belief that
What a beginning! Observing his own feet for some time set upon a bottom drawer. It seems like half the world has jobs that do next to nothing for quotients of the day- I know mine sure did.Ok and some delightful dialogue. Inheritance features large. It's springtime. And everyone is giving nice-nice to the clergy face front, and disdaining and snarking them in more jovial company.It's extremely Italian. And all the laughter stops at the Consecration.Seriously, most reviewers think this is Leon's
An odd mystery, this crime is not resolved. It's too dangerous to go on when Opus Dei makes its influence known and the star witness and crime victim simply disappears, opting for survival over justice. In the course of the investigation, Brunetti is injured and endures a severe infection of his wound which puts him the hospital for a time.There is a small justice at the end when Commisario Brunetti's powerful father-in-law, Count Orazio, manages to get a pedophile priest "re-assigned" to an
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venetian police is approached by a young woman who looks familiar but whom he can't quite place and who wants to tell him about what she fears has been happening at a nursing home where she recently worked. Only after she identifies herself does he realize that she was a nun who once cared for his mother at the nursing home where she is a patient. She had subsequently left that nursing home and worked at another, the one about which she is reporting to him. But
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