Uniform Justice - Donna Leon

Winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger Award Donna Leons Unifome Justice begins with the discovery of the corpse of a young cadet at the San Martino Military Academy in Venice. All the evidence points to a straight forward suicide however the investigating officer Commisario Guido Brunetti's gut instinct tells him otherwise. The cadet is the son of a reluctant ex-politician, one with principles, and this seems to be the whole reason for suspecting foul play. Its a very weak story line. Had this been the authors first novel I doubt it would even have made it to print. Perhaps its one of those boks where you needed to have read the ...  Read the complete review

==Background:== If you take a look at some of my reviews you will see an awful lot of them lot of them are written about crime novels. Simple reason for this, I enjoy a good thriller. Out of these you will see littered through these novels written by Donna Leon. From humble beginnings from my perspective she has become one of my favourite authors. ==About the author:== Donna Leon was born in America on the 29 September 1942. She has lived and worked in Venice for the past 20 years. Here, she has set her most famous novels, featuring Commissario Brunetti as the investigating officer. So far she has written 17 in this series, with a new ...  Read the complete review