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Wilful Behaviour
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery (Related to this series)
- Author
- Donna Leon
- Narrator
- Steven Crossley
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 2 February 2012
- Run Time
- 9 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Critics Review
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A classic example of detective-book murder, it is satisfyingly difficult to resolve ... Leon whips up a brilliant narrative storm
Sunday Times
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Compelling ... absorbingly detailed ... this is a powerful story, brilliantly evoking Venetian atmosphere, and the characters of Brunetti and his family continue to deepen throughout this series
The Times
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Donna Leon's novels have become successively more subtle, more complex and perhaps more serious, without ever losing their compelling power as narratives. This is especially true of Wilful Behaviour; the story is wholly engrossing
Evening Standard
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
I enjoyed this with its engaging characters and genuine mystery but found the plot - based in art theft and corruption originating in the times of Mussolini - a little dry. But it has a philosophical message, as in its title, depicting the lengths to which some people will go to believe what they want to, despite evidence to the contrary. It ends on this note which, with its contemporary relevance, I found rather depressing. I will listen to more from this author though.
jackdor 2025-06-17
Details
- Author
- Donna Leon
- Narrator
- Steven Crossley
- Duration
- 9 hours
- Release Date
- 2 February 2012
- ISBN
- 9781448123384
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...
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