{"id":5440,"date":"2015-10-03T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:36:38","slug":"dressed-for-death-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5440","title":{"rendered":"Dressed for Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0097D7DMY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0097D7DMY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=SFGW37CCF7CEOAQH\">Dressed for Death<\/a><\/em> (1994) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/leond.php\">Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jq542B\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dressed-for-Death-1.jpg?resize=180%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6386\" \/><\/a>And now, in the third book of the Commisario Brunetti series, we finally meet Elettra, who will become just as (if not more) central to the series as Vianello.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased to meet you, Signorina Zorzi,\u201d Brunetti said. The name rang familiarly in his ear.<br \/>\n\u201cI believe I\u2019m to work for you, as well, Commissario,\u201d she said, smiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCould you see what your computer tells you about the dealings of Avvocato Giancarlo Santomauro?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I grinned, reading that, knowing what would soon be in store for Brunetti.<\/p>\n<p>However, like this previous book, there isn&#8217;t a particularly happy ending.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnce mud has been thrown, Commissario, it cannot ever be fully washed off. People like to think badly of other people; the worse it is, the happier it makes them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is very sad, but also true.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Penguin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed for Death (1994) Donna Leon And now, in the third book of the Commisario Brunetti series, we finally meet Elettra, who will become just as (if not more) central to the series as Vianello. \u201cI\u2019m very pleased to meet you, Signorina Zorzi,\u201d Brunetti said. The name rang familiarly in his ear. \u201cI believe I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,8,42,41],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-mystery","category-police","category-reread","tag-commissario-guido-brunetti","tag-donna-leon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1pK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":574,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/574","url_meta":{"origin":5440,"position":0},"title":"Dressed for Death","author":"Michelle","date":"May 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dressed for Death (1994) Donna Leon The second third Commiario Guido Brunetti mystery, Dressed for Death starts with the body of what is assumed to be a prostitute found behind a slaughterhouse in Marghera. 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