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Earthly Remains

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Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Earthly Remains by Donna Leon, read by David Rintoul.
During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work.
Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny's Natural History.
The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him – not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he'd been secretly visiting. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend.
In Earthly Remains, Donna Leon shows Venice through an insider's eyes. From family meals and vaporetti rides to the never-ending influx of tourists and suffocating political corruption, the details and rhythms of everyday Venetian life are at the core of this thrilling novel, and of the terrible crime at its heart.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      David Colacci is the perfect narrator for Leon's newest Venetian murder mystery. Listeners will lose themselves in Colacci's deep and emotionally packed portrayal of Commissario Brunetti of the Carabiniere as he fits together the disjointed clues scattered about the Lido to solve another puzzle of means, motive, and opportunity. Brunetti must interview a broad range of characters, and Colacci exquisitely captures each suspect's bitterness, sorrow, joy, or regret. Occasionally, Leon allows Brunetti a break from his relentless investigation and treats listeners to a humorous exchange between the Commissario and his brilliant wife, Paola. So step into the gondola and glide along the romantic Venetian canals as Colacci delivers another extraordinary adventure with Commissario Brunetti. E.B. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 13, 2017
      Bestseller Leon’s enticing 26th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery (after 2016’s The Waters of Eternal Youth) finds the Venetian policeman at headquarters one hot July day, questioning an arrogant lawyer accused of drugging a young woman he met at a party who subsequently died. When Brunetti has a heart seizure during this contentious interview, he winds up in the hospital. Prescribed complete rest, he later takes his wife’s suggestion of staying at a villa on a sparsely inhabited island in the Venetian Lagoon. There he befriends Davide Casati, the villa’s caretaker and a keeper of bees, some of which are mysteriously dying. Then, during a fierce storm, Davide disappears. Brunetti undertakes a search that leads to the discovery of his friend’s body and boat. Was Davide’s death an accident? He had been grief stricken since his wife’s death, Brunetti learns, and recently remorseful over the demise of his beloved bees. Along the way to the poignant ending, Brunetti develops insights into nature and humankind’s failure to protect it, as well as the nature of guilt and its role in a man’s life. Agent: Susanna Bauknecht, Diogenes Verlag (Switzerland).

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