{"id":683,"date":"2008-10-08T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=683"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:13:56","slug":"uniform-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/683","title":{"rendered":"Uniform Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uniform Justice<\/a><\/em> (2003) Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I really like Commissario Guido Brunetti. I like his sense of justice and fairness. I like his intelligence and wit. And I like his wife. In fact I think I wish I was Paola.<\/p>\n

A boy is found dead in the local military school, and it’s immediately filed as a suicide. However, the father was not only in Parliament, but had been forced to retire for being too honest. So Brunetti wants to see if the boys death could have been something other than suicide.<\/p>\n

As usual in Venice, politics and corruption are at the heart of every case, and Brunetti continues to learn that discovering the truth does not always mean bringing criminals to justice.<\/p>\n

Something about the back cover put me off this book, and I can’t tell you precisely what it was, but for some reason the back cover text on these books seems unappealing, even though I almost uniformly love what appears between the covers.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n

If you have not read a Commissario Guido Brunetti book, you should be able to start at this book. There are occasional references to past cases, but nothing that would keep one from understanding or enjoying this book.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A body is discovered in a field that has lain fallow for several years, and from the ring found with the body, it is likely that the body is that of a young man\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mystery"","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\/Nobel-Radiance.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1353,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1353","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":4},"title":"A Sea of Troubles","author":"Michelle","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A Sea of Troubles (2001) Donna Leon I am failing to understand the hows and whys of Penguin's publishing schedule for Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles was first published in 2001, but was published by Penguin and released in the US only this year (2009).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","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\/10\/Sea-of-Troubles.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":588,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/588","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":5},"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. 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