PREORDER THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN DONNA LEONS COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI SERIES A REFINERS FIRE NOW. AVAILABLE JULY 2024.Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policemans life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul. Mark Sanderson The TimesLike all of Leons novels it ultimately feels like a glorious invigorating holiday. Daily ExpressOn a cold November evening Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venices canals. The body is soon found and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the mans presence in Venice exists Brunetti is forced to use the citys far richer sources of information gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously he had been living in a garden house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victims interest in Buddhism the revolutionary Tamil Tigers and the last crop of Italian political terrorists active in the 1980s.As the investigation expands Brunetti Vianello Commissario Griffoni and Signorina Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzlerandom information about real estate and land use books university friendshipsthat appear to have little in common. Until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth on Italian politics and history and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.