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Rita had grown up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. But after her mother's death, she decides to leave her teaching job and descend upon her poor but aristocratic Italian relatives, the Count and Countess Casati in Assisi - the place she has idealised since she was a child. When her corpse is found in the family mausoleum, Alessandro Cenni of the State Police of Umbria must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family if he is to discover who killed Rita.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Murder, pretensions, family, in NYC & Assissi,
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This review is from: Last Enemy, The (Soho Crime) (Paperback)
Ms Brophy has written an unusual who dunnit. This is my first meeting with Commissario Cenni but I shall meet him again in another book by Ms Brophy.
After half a lifetime of supporting her self-centred mother, the mother's death leaves Rita Minelli unexpectedly well-off from monies left by her father and hidden by her mother. Rita had loved a childhood interlude spent with her mother's pretentious family in Assisi. She sells up and moves there, living unwanted and unloved in the old family home. The story includes a few locals, a few immigrants from Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the Inspector Cenni called to a homicide during Assisi's religious fervour on Good Friday, and running behind everything the corrupt Italian way of getting things done - or ignored. Surfaces cover, sometimes imperfectly, other layers. Cenni detects with varying results but Ms Brophy brings everything together with skill so that we understand the motivations as well as the actions of our main characters. I think my personal complaint might be that not enough of the Italian scenery is put on the pages although there is certainly sufficient town and passing landscape for the book's plot but then I fell in love with Italy on my first visit there.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply disappointing - don't waste your time,
By qaminante (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Enemy, The (Soho Crime) (Paperback)
I feel obliged to warn anyone who might be swayed by the previous 2 reviews that someone who loves Donna Leon and Magdalen Nabb is likely to be deeply disappointed in this author, at least as revealed in this book. Not only does she feel obliged to telegraph future developments all the time, and to tell readers how wonderful Commisario Cenni is, just in case we don't get it, but her prose is wooden, none of her characters seems to have any inner life - AND, she seems to be convinced that a "super strata" is some sort of highway (might have put it down to a typo - but it is systematic)!
One of the reviews on the back claims it is an "Italian HISTORICAL police procedural", which seems to me to confirm that the people who write these things don't actually read them. I managed to do so but will not be buying anything by this author again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Graciously flawed Commissarios,
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This review is from: Last Enemy, The (Soho Crime) (Paperback)
Last Enemy, The What a find for a fan of Leon's Commissario Brunetti. Assissi instead of Venice, but Politics in the Italian State against a most honorable police Inspector
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