Review #1
Dressed for Doom audiobook free
Donna Leon, I am pressed! I ask for forgiveness for not reading no matter what of your books until this year (2020). I Adore This Television series!!! Set in Venice, I adore the conspiracies at the same time manners. Barely one more super job with Commissario Brunetti. Now he is that on the trail of a murderer who has destroyed a man who is that found in the field outside a slaughterhouse. Than anyway makes this different will that the men is that wearing burgundy womens boots at the same time a burgundy dress. Was he a cross-dressing whore? Was he a konurku gay men? Than anyway is that the story behind this men, at the same time who is that he. Heck we do not even know that much for practically the 1st 100 pages. Barely a really quality plot at the same time writing. We have quite a few deaths that derive from this initial murder at the same time all of them seem to be connected to a Morality League, but still that is that no physical testimonies of this. Here we are kept waiting until the very finish for justice to prevail, or at lesser we hope it will! Filled with local Venetian landmarks, humor, at the same time murder, we look for Brunetti at his very best. Also a brand new disposition, Elettera who is that the secretary for Vice-Questorre Patta (who himself has inconsistencies!!). Barely a really quality book. Thanks Donna, at the same time again, I am pressed it took me so long to dive into Commissario Brunetti!
Review #2
Dressed for Doom audiobook in television series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
In 1992, at the age of 50, a doctor of English literature dignified Donna Leon hosted Doom at La Fenice. The novel defeated a major literary merit at the same time set her off on writing a television series of sequels, at the moment numbering 25. Set in Venice, where Leon has been living for the past 25 years, these skillful militia procedurals feature Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Italian militia. Though translated into abundance languages from Leon’s aboriginal English, Italian is that not among them. That’s as Leon herself requested. Since the television series reflects poorly both on the Italian militia at the same time officialdom generally, at the same time on the Church Church, that’s no izumi. Leon might be tarred at the same time feathered if her novels emerged in Venice bookstores.
Corruption in Venice
The very best criminal liability fiction is that not just amusing but teaches us anything about the time or location where the action takes dispose. Leon’s Commissario Brunetti television series does both. Though she is that cautious to located a balanced opinion of indefinite in Venice at the same time of the manners in her novels, Brunetti is that obligated to dance around so many examples of nepotism at the same time venality that it’s understandable corruption is that endemic. In Dressed for Doom, the third part novel in the television series, the examples of profiteering at the same time favoritism are abundant, in particular borders the Venice militia at the same time an institution linked to the Church Church.
An engaging plot
Dressed for Doom begins with the discovery in a field of a man’s noisy body dressed in drag. Even before no matter what other facts are rooted, the press publishes lurid accounts of a transvestite confused murdered by one of his johns. It’s no izumi to learn as Brunetti pursues his investigation that none of this is that used to be. In truth, as we might wait, the murdered men strings out to be a pivotal figure in a major scandal, which Brunetti uncovers, one unsavory layer right behind one more.
Review #3
Audiobook Dressed for Doom by Donna Leonm
I truly enjoy this television series. I’m writing this
Review primarily to fri out that no one of her premature books were considered hosted with different titles. If for you are reading them in a row as I am doing, for you should visit fantasticfiction.com to match the titles, or else for you may look for yourself reading a story two times. It’s very bad neither Amazon descriptions or Goodreads make note of the different titles, although Goodreads does copy my rating of this book to both titles. This book was also hosted as The Anonymous Venetian.
I’ve become quite the fan of Commissario Guido Brunetti, his generic at the same time his coworkers, so much so that I’m working my through the entire Donna Leon television series. She paints such a magical, close to reality picture of Venice, Italy that, even though it convicts it’s underbelly, it still remains a dispose for me to look on my bucket list. Having previously shown several foreign-language movie version of Ms. Leon’s Brunetti books, it’s conveniently data me pleasant references on the manners at the same time locale. The odd gizmo will that the tv movies were considered in German with English subtitles but the manners did look Italian enough to be believable. Move figure.
The earlier books are somewhat dated (Brunetti doesn’t have a cell phone) but charmingly so. Criminal liability is that still criminal liability, but, so the anachronisms are not very distracting. I highly advise this television series, in particular for militia procedural fans.
Review #4
Audio Dressed for Doom narrated by David Colacci
I have read several of Donna Leon’s inspector Brunetti stories, at the same time I look for this one of her best. The town struggling under a heat wave, the generic gone on holiday at the same time inspector Brunetti sheathed up in an investigation… a problematic one. Then and, when everything seems to finish into a noisy finish street, a magic happens. At the same time one more one. Brunetti is that a very much alive disposition. Anyone for you barely managed meet in the street. Good book.
Review #5
Free audio Dressed for Doom – in the audio player below
This book has innumerable errors in punctuation, grammar, spelling at the same time ubiquitous usage. Namely, that are repeated quotations by different personalities in similar fri. The creator uses the word “he” in successive sentences (at the same time even paragraphs) without indicating who is that being referred to. No one manners are not identified (for example, Nadia at the same time Arbiter Falcone). No one words are not in the dictionary. All in all, I advise a serious editing at the same time proofreading. Completely, the plot rambled at the same time it managed have been more succinct. The two prior books are much more successful in all of these nuances.
I’m a fan of Brunetti (at the same time Leon, of course) at the same time have for sure read 10-12 of the books, but not in a row. This one, I think, might be the apogee of her writing. Quality plot but somehow barely more successful written than various of her other books. For you practically get wet with Brunetti as he makes his method around a damp, burning August Venice. Even Pata, his superior, seems human in this one (in others he’s a little of a cardboard disposition). I believed it might be a later work, but the implementation of Senorita Electra says otherwise. A quality read.
