{"id":4035,"date":"2013-09-22T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:10:38","slug":"doctored-evidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4035","title":{"rendered":"Doctored Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jSaJL5\">Doctored Evidence<\/a><\/em> (2004) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/leond.php\">Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jSaJL5\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Doctored-Evidence-1.jpg?resize=181%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6497\" \/><\/a>An elderly woman is discovered brutally murdered in her apartment. Suspicion immediately falls upon her maid, who has disappeared, and a man-hunt ensues.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about this story is the book pretty much opens with the shocking injustice, rather than ending with it, the way these books normally do.<\/p>\n<p>It also takes a close look at Brunetti&#8217;s relationships with Scarpa, which is extremely negative. Brunetti doesn&#8217;t get along with Patta or Scarpa, but the relationship with Scarpa is far more negative and dangerous.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;It&#8217;s because he hates you. I&#8217;m not important enough for him to hate. And he&#8217;s afraid of Elettra.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Brunetti&#8217;s first impulse was to object to this interpretation, but he forced himself to think it through. He realized he found it unsatisfactory because it made Scarpa out to be less of a villain than he wanted him to be: guilty only of spite, not conspiracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, events in at home make an appearance in the story.<\/p>\n<p>I found this passage to particularly resonate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;(B)y thinking eschatologically,&#8217; he said: &#8216;Death. Judgement. Heaven. Hell.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You don&#8217;t really believe in any of that, do you?&#8217; asked an astonished Paola.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are times when it would be nice,&#8217; he said&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, there are.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/7943638\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctored Evidence (2004) Donna Leon An elderly woman is discovered brutally murdered in her apartment. Suspicion immediately falls upon her maid, who has disappeared, and a man-hunt ensues. The interesting thing about this story is the book pretty much opens with the shocking injustice, rather than ending with it, the way these books normally do. 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This book is not just about discovering who killed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Doctored-Evidence-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5539,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5539","url_meta":{"origin":4035,"position":2},"title":"Falling in Love","author":"Michelle","date":"November 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Falling in Love (2015) Donna Leon And now, I have read and re-read all the published Donna Leon, Commisario Brunetti books. We return once again to the Opera and Flavia Petrelli. La Fenice is putting on Tosca, and Flavia has the lead role. 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The instinct to institutional survival stilled Brunetti\u2019s tongue.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mystery&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Temptation-of-Forgiveness.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":588,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/588","url_meta":{"origin":4035,"position":4},"title":"Quietly in Their Sleep","author":"Michelle","date":"June 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Quietly in Their Sleep (1997) Donna Leon This was a rather strange story in comparison to the previous books. Brunetti is given only a vague idea that there might be something untoward happening in a nursing home--a home that is run by the same man as the home in which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mystery&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quietly-in-Their-Sleep.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1307,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1307","url_meta":{"origin":4035,"position":5},"title":"The Girl of His Dreams","author":"Michelle","date":"August 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Girl of His Dreams (2008) Donna Leon This has all of the elements I've come to expect of a Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery--death, intrigue, good food, and corrupt Italian politics. This is not to say she presents all Italians as corrupt, after all we have Brunetti and Vianello on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mystery&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Girl-of-His-Dreams.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}