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Wilful Behaviour
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs
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Summary
When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...
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- L. McCulloch
- 01-07-18
Good story, poor performance
I like the Brunetti series because I love Venice and I like to read about the city. This is a good story, looking back to corruption in WW2. Unfortunately, the performer doesn’t have good Italian pronunciation; Guido’s daughter Chiara Is mispronounced “Chee-Ara” instead of “Kee-ara” and San Zaccaria, a well known area, is also mispronounced, among many others.
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- Maximilian
- 03-12-14
Predictable good fun by Leon
Would you listen to Wilful Behaviour again? Why?
Maybe, depends when. A trick is clever really only once. In particular when it comes to crime novels.
What other book might you compare Wilful Behaviour to, and why?
The other Commissario Brunetti novels are somewhat similar, but rather entertaining. Predictable good fun!
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Signorina Elettra's moments on the computer are always fun.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No, not really
Any additional comments?
Great narrator, unfortunately a certain grasp of Italian might have been useful. 'Tshiara' was particularly painful.
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- jberlin
- 03-01-17
Story superb, unfortunately the reader cannot pronounce Italian names
It's a pity that the pronunciation - e.g. Chiara within English "ch" - distracts from the excellent writing
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- Jai K.
- 07-06-16
Poor narrator
Horrible voice. Horrible attempt to do female characters and makes most men sound like thugs! Spoils it. Bring back David Rintoul!
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- Laleo
- 29-12-18
Great story
As always, the story laid out before us by Donna Leon, is both interesting and visually very descriptive, in a believable way. As A reader that has been to Venice 5 times starting in 1980, but not been since 2008, it is almost as if I am being updated, and that is much fun.
On the other hand, being an Italian speaker, I find the interpreter’s mistaken Spanish pronounciation of a main character’s name, and that of several locations, very disturbing and disappointing.
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- Olivier Herold
- 18-05-23
Shame about the Italian (and German) accents….
Good story, but narration needs coaching. Shame as so much of the book contains Italian.
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- Joanna
- 13-05-23
I wish the narrator had received some Italian coaching.
I really enjoyed this story and didn’t mind the very English narration. However I wondered why the Audible editorial staff didn’t pick up the poor Italian pronunciation. Most importantly Chiara’s name is pronounced wrongly. How was this missed. It’s just disappointing and distracting.
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- AvidReader
- 05-02-23
As well written as usual
It's unusual for commissario Brunetti to personally meet the main subject in a case before it becomes a case, but listening to this story it quickly becomes clear how much difference this makes. A well written story again, I was only - as I've been so often with these Itailian crime stories - somewhat unsatisfied with the final outcome ... but maybe that actually makes the story all the more realistic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-01-23
skilful examination of complex emotions
Kept one engrossed and regularly surprised at credible but unexpected twists and turns : strong characterisation
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-09-21
Crossley gets it right
I really liked Crossley's performance.
All voices spoke as though they were English with individual accents of class and nature, except when they were not Italian and they spoke English as though it were their second language with their own national accent coming through.
Good story, rather complex, but enjoyable.
I would like the Brunetti family to adopt me - they eat so well!
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