For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call.

A sudden act of vandalism has just been committed

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It began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.

As Paola

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A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina.

But a severed foot is discovered a good distance

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When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves on the region's disaster response team. The task that confronts her is a sad & sickening one. Putting normal life on hold, she & her colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims. A chance discovery concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site. A deserted house close by is buried so deep in the woods that locals claim to know nothing of its existence. & her examination of the foot throws up more questions than it answers. Before she can make any progress, an anonymous accusation is levelled against her. Tempe must fight to save her professional standing. But she fears that, air tragedy aside, another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a conspiracy of silence, Tempe is determined to bring justice for her mystery victim ...

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves on the region's disaster response team. The task that confronts her is a sad & sickening one. Putting normal life on hold, she & her colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims. A chance discovery concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site. A deserted house close by is buried so deep in the woods that locals claim to know nothing of its existence. & her examination of the foot throws up more questions than it answers. Before she can make any progress, an anonymous accusation is levelled against her. Tempe must fight to save her professional standing. But she fears that, air tragedy aside, another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a conspiracy of silence, Tempe vows to bring justice for her mystery victim- ...

A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site...



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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance & boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his father he finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'.
Within a fortnight Gyuri is unexpectedly pulled off the bus & detained without explanation This is the start of his journey to & subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. On arrival he finds he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer.
Fatelessness' power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust, the strangeness is compounded by Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of everything he witnesses.

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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri is let off going to school for 'family reasons'. His father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store Gyuri witnesses his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper with nonchalance & boredom. Two months laters after saying goodbye to his father he finds himself assigned to a 'permanent workplace'.
Within a fortnight Gyuri is unexpectedly pulled off the bus & detained without explanation This is the start of his journey to & subsequent imprisonment in Auschwitz. On arrival he finds he is unable to identify with other Jews, & in turn is rejected by them. An outsider among his own people, his estrangement makes him a preternaturally acute observer.
Fatelessness' power lies in its refusal to mitigate the unfathomable alienness of the Holocaust, the strangeness is compounded by Georg's dogmatic insistence on making sense of everything he witnesses.

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