The Temptation of Forgiveness
Donna Leon
"On his desk, Brunetti found what he did not want to find, a file that had been accumulating pages ever since its first appearance in the Questura."
"On his desk, Brunetti found what he did not want to find, a file that had been accumulating pages ever since its first appearance in the Questura."
"A train is thundering through the nocturnal winter landscape. The locomotive is pulling almost three hundred meters of boxcars behind it."
"When Andreev said two bodies had been discovered outside the Kharbin train station, the Baron had an image of the dead men sprawled against snow, frozen in positions their bodies couldn’t hold in life."
“My French leçon today, and Les Diaboliques tonight. A rat-bastard husband, his “little ruin” of a wife, a mistress, a murder, a vanished corpse.”
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