Crime Fiction Novel

The book Dressed for Death by Donna Leon is a book about the murder of a transvestite prostitute. It Starts off when a man named Bettino Cola is walking outside the factory that he works out; taking a break, and he notices a red shoe. It’s in pretty good condition so he decides to take it. He spots the other one and decides that they might his wife well but upon trying to obtain the second she he finds that the shoe is attached to a foot that is attached to a leg that is attached to a body; a dead body. When the police arrive he get interrogated about the victim but he had no answers for them. Eventually they go over to the victim and investigate only to find out that it wasn’t a woman.
Brunetti is a very smart detective that uses clever tactics to pick up on clues, time and time again, to solve all kinds of different mysteries in the series. This book is another adventure of Guido Brunetti. He is hoping to get away from his busy job and have a relaxing family vacation in the mountains when he is forced to solve the mystery of the gruesome murder of a transvestite prostitute. The body had been beaten to a pulp, to the point where they were not able to identify the person by their face. Because of this he must go around all of Venice for someone that knows who the dead person is but has no luck in finding so, until he gets a phone call from someone who can give him some juicy information about the murder.
There were not many clues in this book because he was searching and couldn’t find anything. The biggest help to him by far in the book was when he got the call. That was a real turning point in the book. It gave him information that tied all the other clues together and made it possible to solve the case.
“If Italy was nothing else, it was a place where documented evidence always existed, and that in abundance; what was often illusory was the reality it was meant to reflect.” (p. 251). I like this passage because it shows that italy has a lot of documented evidence and this is essentially how Brunetti gets the information to solve the case. “she put one knuckle in her mouth, hoping, perhaps, to keep the words from coming out, but she had seen the body in the morgue, and so there was no use in that.” (p. 122). This is when Brunetti is trying to get evidence from Signora, a potential witness. “Though chill of the early autumn remained in the city, that night Brunetti needed no blanket.” (p.343). This passage appeals to me because it is a way of saying that Brunetti can sleep well tonight no matter the circumstances because he has solved the case.