After a somewhat untypically violent opening, the continuing tales of
Commisarion Brunetti settle down to the more normal expansive narrative
with well wrought scenes of famiuly life interspersed with the criminal investigation (or should it be the other way round). Well up to the high standard of previous works, the only jarring note was, for me, the dialogue
between Brunetti and the victim of the initial; violence which brings the story
to a close. While the denouement was anticipated in that it had been all but
spelt out, the way it was laid out was not to my liking.