From Venice to Sicily, in the comfort of home...Two mysteries took me there. Leon's Commissario Brunetti is excellent company in which to navigate the canals and backstreets of Venice as well as the intricacies of Italian bureaucracy. He is thoughtful, humane, and, above all, decent. I can see that I need to investigate more of the Brunetti series--around thirty of them.Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano's home turf is Sicily. He's a bit more brash, but quite engaging as he deals with the disappearance of a financial scam artist. Leon is American by birth, but a long-time resident of Venice, writing in English. Camilleri writes in Italian so this is a translation. Both are definitely good reads. And both left me hungry for the kind of real Italian food their protagonists enjoy so much.
