In 2023, I read MANY of the Commissario Brunetti books by American academic and crime-writer Donna Leon.

Set in Venice.

Back in Europe 2024, there was a new one available.

So Shall You Reap: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery.

Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant.

Because no official record of the man’s presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city’s far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim.

Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim’s interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s.

Easy reading. A slow burn.

The personal life of Brunetti and his wife are equally as interesting as the murders.