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title: "Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)"
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# Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)

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## Customer Reviews

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    A good example from a terrific series
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016*

In 1992, at the age of 50, a professor of English literature named Donna Leon published Death at La Fenice. The novel won a major literary award and set her off on writing a series of sequels, now numbering 25. Set in Venice, where Leon has been living for the past 25 years, these skillful police procedurals feature Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Italian police. Though translated into many languages from Leon’s native English, Italian is not among them. That’s as Leon herself requested. Since the series reflects poorly both on the Italian police and officialdom generally, and on the Catholic Church, that’s no surprise. Leon might be tarred and feathered if her novels appeared in Venice bookstores.Corruption in VeniceThe very best crime fiction is not just entertaining but teaches us something about the time or location where the action takes place. Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series does both. Though she is careful to present a balanced view of life in Venice and of the characters in her novels, Brunetti is forced to dance around so many examples of nepotism and venality that it’s clear corruption is endemic. In Dressed for Death, the third novel in the series, the examples of profiteering and favoritism are abundant, especially within the Venice police and an institution linked to the Catholic Church.An engaging plotDressed for Death begins with the discovery in a field of a man’s dead body dressed in drag. Even before any other facts are established, the press publishes lurid accounts of a transvestite prostitute murdered by one of his johns. It’s no surprise to learn as Brunetti pursues his investigation that none of this is true. In fact, as we might expect, the murdered man turns out to be a pivotal figure in a major scandal, which Brunetti uncovers, one unsavory layer after another.

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    Other titles
  

*by T***P on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017*

I truly enjoy this series. I'm writing this review primarily to point out that some of her early books were published with different titles. If you are reading them in order as I am doing, you should visit fantasticfiction.com to match the titles, or else you may find yourself reading a story twice. It's too 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 published as The Anonymous Venetian.

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    Great Mystery Series!
  

*by J***F on Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2017*

I've become quite the fan of Commissario Guido Brunetti, his family and his coworkers, so much so that I'm working my through the entire Donna Leon series. She paints such a wonderful, realistic picture of Venice, Italy that, even though it exposes it's underbelly, it still remains a place for me to see on my bucket list. Having previously seen several foreign-language movie version of Ms. Leon's Brunetti books, it's conveniently given me visual references on the characters and locale. The odd thing is that the tv movies were in German with English subtitles but the characters did look Italian enough to be believable. Go figure.The earlier books are somewhat dated (Brunetti doesn't have a cell phone) but charmingly so. Crime is still crime, however, so the anachronisms are not too distracting. I highly recommend this series, especially for police procedural fans.

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