So Shall You Reap: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802162366)

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim's interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s.
As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signora Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle--random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships--that appear to have little in common, until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.

Author: Donna Leon
ISBN-10: 0802162363
ISBN-13: 9780802162366
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2022 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2023
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 34