• Fatal Remedies

  • A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
  • By: Donna Leon
  • Narrated by: David Colacci
  • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (617 ratings)

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Fatal Remedies

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
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Publisher's summary

Commissario Guido Brunetti's career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his family's innocence before it's too late?

©1999 Donna Leon and Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich. All rights reserved. (P)2012 AudioGo

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Dissappointed

I just started reading this series and so far have enjoyed the author, narrator and characters very much. This entry in the series just aggravated me from the very start - enough so that I am writing this review as a warning to others. When it finally moved from the incredulously ridiculous "crimes" of the lead character's wife, a supposedly mature, educated, responsible, sane, mother of two, who is also a college professor married to a Commissario of police and then to an actual "crime" (murder) it improved, but not fast enough to rescue it. While I may be 100% in sympathy with her stand on the issue that spurs on her bizarre behavior, I cannot condone it. This was so off putting that I almost didn't finish the book. I guess you can't "hit them all out of the park" so this particular entry should be thrown out of a window and into a trash can, preferably an open window, so as not to cause any glass breakage.

This starts out with the lead character's wife on a moral quest, trying to make a vague point about a serious situation. After being apprehended and reprieved the first time and with a few days' time to mull over the actual consequences of her actions, she decides to leave her children alone, asleep, late at night, and go off to commit the same crime AGAIN. No sympathy or respect for a any woman who would do that. Sorry - the author lost me here.

There is a murder in there eventually but, wait for it, SHE feels responsible for that too.

A man may not find this as insulting and offensive as I did but wait, she insults men too. How lame to hear her complain to her "sane" husband that only a woman can react this way to this social issue and understand how she feels. Really? How arrogant for her to put that in print. What...only a woman can experience deeply felt emotions and use it as a good excuse for bad behavior.

I hope she gets over herself and returns to her "normal" behavior in the next book. Or I'll write another bad review and won't buy anymore in this series.

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Great series

What did you love best about Fatal Remedies?

This is not one of my absolute favorites in the series but Leon is always good .
Colacci makes Guido come Alice. I love his reading and even if the story may not be as good he makes it better..

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Excellent Read!

Would you listen to Fatal Remedies again? Why?

A great read or listen for Leon Fans. As with all Leon books it is just as good the fifth time as the first time you read it. I love to listen to an audio recording of one of Leon's books as I read it. Colacci's recital puts life into Leon's story and helps me with the pronunciation on the many italian phrases throughtout her Brunetti mysteries.

What did you like best about this story?

I was glad that Paula put action to her vehement protest of travel aimed especially toward pedophile's so that they may take advantage of children in other counties.

Which scene was your favorite?

Paula's description of the person who broke the travel agency window, to the police officers, was very much the Paula I've come to know through Leon's books.

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Absolutely not LGBTQ

False advertising? There were not even any incidental LGBTQ characters or even any slurs.

That said... Great story again. I am a fan, but would rather Audible get there catagories straight (or rather accurate)

At first I was afraid it would be a travel book, but Donna Leon worked her magic and I was entertained.

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I'm in love with Guido

If you could sum up Fatal Remedies in three words, what would they be?

Well-crafted story

What did you like best about this story?

I really enjoy this series and this book was an excellent example - Guido is so well-characterized. You understand his dilemmas and sympathize. Paola is such a firebrand and Guido attempts to remain true to his policeman ethic.

Have you listened to any of David Colacci’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

David Colacci is perfect as the voice of Guido Brunetti. I've been working my way through the series and he is so much better than Crossley.

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A Real Miss in a Good Series

I’ve enjoyed this series so far. A couple of the books were outstanding and the rest very good. But I could not get into this entry and eventually gave up. Leon has done such a good job of character development so far that I simply couldn’t reconcile the actions of Paola in this book. It made her seem immature, childish and not to bright. She would have thought of far more effective ways to meet her goal and she seemed to completely disregard her marriage. It is as if he had an entirely new wife. I am skipping the rest of this and moving on to the next.

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Another winner with Commisario Guido Brunetti

I really enjoy all of Donna Leone's Commisario Brunetti stories, and the narration by David Colacci is perfect! I can visualize the story and feel as though i am in Venice! Highly recommend

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It's fine

I love this series, so overall I enjoyed it, but it was not as engaging as others I have read. The narrator did a great job.

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Eh never to write about

I love this series and I look forward to each book but this one was a snoozer. 🥱. It didn’t keep my attention and the story was interesting but flat.

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Disappointing

Typically I love the Guido Brunetti mysteries and one of the things I enjoy is his family life. The author never takes cheap shots at his family so their suffering is a mere plot device. And one of the constants is his brilliant college professor wife, Paola. But when she learns of a local tourist agency selling sex tours to Thailand and is horrified by the prospect, as well anyone would be, what does she do? Does she write letters to the paper? picket outside the agency, with signs saying they support pedophilia? organize a campaign to protest these tours? No. She lobs a rock, through the window, like a 10 year old kid having a tantrum and her justification is the whimpering whine 'I want it to stop' So would we all. But adults know that throwing a rock through a window isn't going to 'stop' a thing. Then she tries to justify her position by insisting ALL women are ALWAYS in abject terror at the prospect of some day being victimized by a cruel, brutal, random man. Well, I never have been and I dont know any woman who regularly is prey to that level of quivering terror. And her little melt down was only tangentially related to the meat of the story, which was a murder but she still needed to feel guilty about it BUT she would have thrown the rock anyway. The character of Paola deserved one whole helluvalot better treatment from Dona Leone. If I were Paola Id be outraged to be portrayed in such an insulting, infantile, patronizing and offensive way. .

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