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  • Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti’s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor.

    About Face by Donna Leon: Book summary 2010

  • Brunetti is savoring saor in a Venetian restaurant while lunching with his father-in-law.

    Saor Lindy 2006

  • About Face by Donna Leon (Heinemann) is the new Commissiario Brunetti novel - this outing being accompanied by a practical walking guide to Venice by Toni Sepeda (same publisher).

    Sunday Salon: Spring books Maxine 2009

  • The demise of an old woman cursed with a terrible honesty and given to acts of dangerous ­charity—she was using her apartment as a safe house for battered women—makes Brunetti wonder about the medical examiner's ruling that she died from a heart attack.

    Sleuths and the City Tom Nolan 2011

  • About Face by Donna Leon (Heinemann) is the new Commissiario Brunetti novel - this outing being accompanied by a practical walking guide to Venice by Toni Sepeda (same publisher).

    Sunday Salon: Spring books Maxine 2009

  • Creators | Christopher Borrelli has a lengthy profile of Lynda Barry, whom Ivan Brunetti describes as, "one of the most important cartoonists we have — however quietly people are recognizing it."

    Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • "Drawing Conclusions" Atlantic Monthly Press, 260 pages, $24 finds Brunetti re-reading "The Annals of Imperial Rome" and sensing that much of what Tacitus describes seems fitted to modern Italy.

    Sleuths and the City Tom Nolan 2011

  • ­"Government sunk in corruption," Brunetti muses, "power concentrated in the hands of one man, public taste and morals debased almost beyond recognition: how familiar it all sounded."

    Sleuths and the City Tom Nolan 2011

  • Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he’s seen before.

    About Face by Donna Leon: Book summary 2010

  • It's got that sort of really uncomfortable, too-much-information quality that marks, say, the work of folks like Ivan Brunetti or Joe Matt, but is completely devoid of the sort of craft or storytelling skill those two provide.

    What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

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