Like the Brunettis themselves, I have little love for the Italian take on the armed forces. But this apparent suicide at a military school grips from the first page. And as the plot develops, it's clear that corruption is at work. Brunetti reveals the suicide as a murder, but will the murderer be called to account?

Another unsettling and satisfying read. ( )

The Venice setting enriches these stories, but it’s the very solid plots and character studies that really make them worth reading…. This one studies family, politics, the military and more and delivers emotional storytelling as well ( )

Uniform Justice is Book #12 of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series written by Donna Leon.
Silence surrounds a cadet’s death at an elite military academy. “ Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.”
This series is very interesting to read. The passionate Commissario Brunetti, the city of Venice, Brunetti’s family, the food, the wine, the weather, the plots and characters - each story is its own morality play.
A highly recommended series and title. **** ( )

I'm reading these books in order as much as possible, and this is the most depressing of the series so far. There is no justice whatsoever and no closure or safety for the victimized family. Moro has lost not just his son, but nearly everything/everyone else that he values as well, and although the murderer is known, any attempt to proceed with a case against him will be well defended with a plausible smear campaign against the victim. Worse, the murderer is 18 and completely unrepentant, even smug, and his accomplices are 17. One shudders to think of their future careers. The older generation who began the victimization of the Moro family are also free to continue their careers of milking public funds and supplying shoddy overpriced supplies to the military. No redemption is to be found. ( )

Uniform Justice. (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery). Donna Leone. 2003. I usually love Leone’s books. This one had everything I love about the books: snide comments about government corruption, mouth-watering descriptions of Italian food and drink, and repartee between Brunetti and his wife; however the ending was disappointing. Brunetti must determine if the death of a cadet at an elite military institute is suicide or murder, and he does, but the book ends abruptly. “Justice delayed is justice denied,” and all of that stuff ( )