Fatal Remedies (1999) (edit title/settings)

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• Commissario Guido Brunetti: Add a description of this character.
• Paola Brunetti
• Chiara Brunetti
• Raffi Brunetti
• Signorina Elettra Zorza
• Lorenzo Vianello
• Vice-Questore Patta
• Signor Bonaventura
• Signora Mitri
• Giovanni
• Ruberti
• Ruggiero Palmieri
• Sandi
• Pucetti
• Rizzardi
• Zambino
• Della Corte
• Landi
• Signor Iacovantuono
• Bonino
• Gibbon
• Sandro

Quotes edit see section history

• “There are days when I think everything's getting worse, then there are days when I know they are”

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• ‘If those who judge me are those who have already condemned me, I have no chance.’

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• the ancient Romans had fulminated against the various ages in which they lived, always insisting that the generation of their own youth or of their parents’ had been far superior in every way to the one in which they now found themselves. He recalled their violent screeds against the insensitivity of the young, their sloth, their ignorance, their lack of respect for and deference to their elders, and he found himself greatly cheered by this memory. If every age thinks this way, then perhaps each is wrong and things aren’t getting worse.

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• ‘I think it’s Voltaire who says somewhere, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”’

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• Cannaregio, to him the most beautiful neighbourhood in the city. Which meant, he supposed, in the world.

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• A quotation Paola often used slipped into his mind, the description of one of Chaucer’s pilgrims, the Man of Law: ‘He seemed busier than he was.’

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• Brunetti was struck, as he had been frequently and strongly in recent years, by the absence of talk about politics. He wasn’t sure if no one cared any more or if the subject had simply become too inflammable to permit strangers to attempt it. Regardless of the cause, it had joined religion in some sort of conversational gulag where no one any longer dared, or cared, to go.

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• He recalled, even at this remove, the tremendous sense of assurance that had come to him in learning that certain laws did apply and could be used to govern the validity of conclusions, that they could be demonstrated to be correct or arrived at truly.

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• ‘I hope this time is not too painful for you and that you find the courage to bear it.’

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• To go by their tax returns, no one in Italy made enough to live on; they were a nation of paupers, scraping by only by turning collars, wearing shoes until they could be worn no more and, for all he knew, surviving on chaff and nettles. And yet the restaurants were full of well-dressed people, everyone seemed to have a new car, and the airports never ceased sending off planeloads of happy tourists.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Venice, Italy
• Treviso
• Padova
• Questura
• Castelfranco
• Gazzettino
• Bangkok
• Campo Manin
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Egypt
• Kenya

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by A Noble Radiance, and followed by Friends in High Places.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Donna Leon (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Leon, Donna
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Police Procedurals