Earthly Remains was my first foray into Guido
Brunett’s life; and, as I have no other books in the series to compare it with
I enjoyed the environmental focus and a take away thought of “Bees are
the canary in the mine”. The mystery surrounds an oil company’s illegal
dumping of toxic waste. For those that like a
case-completely-solved who-dunnit with all the loose ends tied up, this is
not one of those: still, I found it to be a satisfying end to an interesting
story.
I really appreciate it that the Brunetti family is a loving and functional one and will be trying another of Leon's books at some stage.
Extra: One slant the author tossed into the book was having Brunetti ‘knowing’ that prayer is useless; “Dear Jesus, keep my children from harm.” He knew it was the worst form of superstition, he knew there was no sense to it and no chance that it could help” <snip> he knew that prayer was useless. And then Leon added a few good digs at the Catholic Church so I went hunting to get a sense of why she would do that: and found this interview with Anna Mundow, which I think answers my wondering pretty succinctly. (Refer to Donna Leon’s answer to question three:
Q: The series is a sly commentary on
environmental issues, politics, the Catholic Church. Is that very deliberate? )
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