Drawing Conclusions (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Commissario Guido Brunetti: 8/19/11. Nearly twenty years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice , Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the...
• Vianello: Venetian Inspector of Police, Commissario Brunetti's friend and assistant.
• Dottor Ettore Rizzardi: Medical Examiner
• Vice-Questore Giuseppe Patta: We have all met officious people like Patta who despite lots of advice to the contrary, always consider themselves to be right and make life so much more difficult for everybody else. Com. Brunetti's superior.
• Paola Brunetti: Bright, intelligent, interesting, police detective's wife.
• Costanza Altavilla: The deceased. A widow who takes in "at risk" women who need to hide from abusive partners.
• Maria Sartori: Add a description of this character.
• Benito Morandi
• Turchetti
• Cuccetti
• Anna Maria Giusti: Neighbor of Signora Altavilla
• Signorina Elettra Zorza: The woman who Brunetti admires most, beautiful, well dressed and with excellent taste as well as being very tech savvy
• Chiara Brunetti: Com. Brunetti's teenage daughter
• Maddalena Orsoni: Founder of Alba Libera
• Signora Cannata
• Claudio Niccolini: Veterinarian. Signora Altavilla's son
• Marillo
• Marino
• Alvise
• Madame Reynard
• The Romanian woman: A petty thief, arrested at least a dozen times, each time under a different pseudonym with a different place and date of birth. The Ferrara police arrest her for a petty crime and since she had a Venencian receipt in her pocket they sent a photo & fingerprints for the Venice police to help identify.
• Gabriela Pavon: An "at risk" woman
• Nicco Martucci: Gabriela Pavon's boyfriend. A Sicilian.

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• “And, to the degree that he valued his job, he could not express curiosity about the fact that Patta's son had a veterinarian rather than a doctor.”

• “She might have been sixty; she might have had a child of sixty.”

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• How little they care about people, those people who wanted to help humanity.

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• ‘Fraudulence, attacked by repeated legislation, was ingeniously revived after each successive counter-measure.’

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• Rio della Tetta, Brunetti was cheered, as always happened when he walked here, by the sight of the most beautiful paving stones in Venice.

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• ‘One of the things Paola once told me is how prone we are to scorn the emotions of simple people. As if ours were better somehow.’

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• ‘lead us not into temptation’. How intelligent of whoever had said that – was it Christ himself? – to realize how easily we were tempted and how easily we fell, and how wise we are to pray to be spared temptation.

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• Usually people surprised us, he reflected, with the bad they did, when some dark impulse slipped the leash and brought them, and others, to ruin. And then how easy it became to find in the past the undetected symptoms of their malice. How, then, find the undetected symptoms of goodness?

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• oleaginous civility. ‘In what way may I be of service to you?’ Turchetti asked after a moment’s

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Venedig
• Madre
• Essen
• Treviso
• Sind
• Palermo
• Venice

First Sentence edit see section history

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• An unknown key: An unknown key on a key ring with house keys. A week before Signora Altavilla died, she added a third key to a set of keys that Signorina Giusti kept for her. Signora Altavilla said that It was a good place to keep this mysterious key.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by A Question of Belief, and followed by Beastly Things.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Donna Leon (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

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

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
• Books › Literature & Fiction