Death in a Strange Country by Donna LeonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The corruption on so many levels in this book is so demoralizing. Murders passed off as suicides or else brushed under the carpet as just another crime committed by a local not very smart young hoodlum. Insurance fraud, illegal dumping of toxic materials by complicit governments and governmental officials both high and low. Threats to those that would investigate and reveal the corruption in some cases, actual retribution to others. And in the end, a good man left in tears and wondering how his father-in-law is involved and yet, not wanting to know, since his wife will, at her father's death, take up running his business enterprises. Venice is a beautiful place and Brunetti loves it with all his heart, but under the surface so much darkness. I don't know if I could visit there without thinking about it, for though this is fiction, there is, I think, more than a little truth in the tale.
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