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Sep 01, 2014miaone rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I've loved Donna Leon's previous Brunetti books, but this one started slow, painfully slow. I didn't mind learning from her about very old books and the thefts thereof, but nothing much happened in the plot for the first half of the book. Then when it did, the details seemed to get str-e-t-c-hed out too much. And as other readers have noted, the ending was abrupt. Usually I really like the parts of her books that include other police officers, and also Brunetti's family, but in this one all those parts feel patched on. None of the characters seem real, which isn't like Leon. If this'd been the first Leon mystery I'd read, it'd be my last.