Fans of Donna Leon and her Venetian police detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, will be pleased to get their hands on her latest, Beastly Things.
In this case, Guido has little to go on other than the unidentifiable body that was found floating in one of the canals, but with the help of the beautiful and mysterious secretary, Signorina Elletra , who has an uncanny ability to mine the digital world for all sorts of information, he and Viannello begin to put the puzzle pieces in place.
In many of the previous novels, Guido in spite of all his best efforts in solving the crime, has to watch helplessly as the Venetian judicial system allows one or more of the "bad guys' to escape any significant consequences. In this case, Guido manages to control the outcome satisfying his own sense of justice.
At one point in the story, Paola Brunetti recalls that during a financially rocky period, her mother refused to serve anything but Parmigiano Reggiano, saying "Better nothing than something that isn't good." Although Donna Leon and her character, Guido, have been at this for a long time, the "good" parmigiano she produces just gets better.
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