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    Alibi: A Novel
    Alibi: A Novel
    Alibi: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Alibi: A Novel

    Written by Joseph Kanon

    Narrated by Holter Graham

    3.5/5

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    From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.

    Winner of the Hammett Prize

    It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he is forced to confront another Venice, a city still at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, including his mother's suave new Venetian suitor, has been compromised by the occupation, and Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.

    When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 3, 2005
    ISBN9781593977603
    Author

    Joseph Kanon

    Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award–winning author of Los Alamos and nine other novels: The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, Istanbul Passage, Leaving Berlin, Defectors, The Accomplice, The Berlin Exchange, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Other awards include the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers and the Human Writes Award of the Anne Frank Foundation. He lives in New York City.

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    • 4/5
      Another solid outing from Kanon, who has yet to disappoint me. The Venice setting is so perfectly described throughout that I really feel as if my passport should have another entry stamped on it at this point. The plot and its resolution were terrific and the pacing was rarely off. Major and minor characters were all well developed and believable, and the only real nit I have about the whole package would involve the female lead, given that I felt sorry for her but I didn't feel a whole lot of sympathy for her by the end. But Kanon puts everyone through the wringer and no one comes out unscathed. And justice? Well, you could say that justice was a fluid thing in postwar Venice...
    • 3/5
      Not the best Kanon, but ok for a doctor's office visit. A long one. He writes as though he knows Venice. And the Italians fascists.
    • 3/5
      Lots and lots of dialog which could have been shortened. Interesting story, one I have not read before or even thought about.
    • 4/5
      This is a case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts. The two main characters are frequently unbelievable to the point of being archetypes. The two main plot twists are so silly as to be near absurd. Anyone who had read enough crime novels will be pretty sure of the outline of the ending halfway through. However the writing and pace are SO good that you won't care. His sense of place is more than good enough for an Anglosphere reader [I did a lot of business in the region over several decades and can nitpick]. His sense of period will again suffice for those not really fluent on Italian politics and history. All in all it was extremely good fun to the point that I read it every moment I could get free till I finished it, then went back to immediately reread a few choice scenes. It is really a pity that this wasn't made into the Hollywood movie instead of his 'the Good German' as this one would be much easier to shoot.
    • 3/5
      I may be done with Joseph Kanon. I liked Los Alamos, didn't like his latest one and thought this was OK...a tad too long.It's post WW II Venice and Adam, an American soldier, just released from service is in Venice to visit his mother. She has met an Italian doctor, Gianni Maglione, and plans to marry him.Adam, at a party, meets Claudia, a Jewess who was in an Italian prisoner camp and, in order to stay alive, became a consort to a Nazi officer. Claudia tells Adam that during the war, Maglione ID'd her father to the Nazis who took him to a camp, where he perished. When confronted, Maglione says he did it because the man was ill and he saved a partisan in the process.Adam, goaded on by Claudia, doesn't want to hear (or believe) this and presses his Army friends to investigate Maglione. He also doesn't want his mother to marry him. One night before a party, Adam confronts Maglione and in a tussle, he and Claudia kill Maglione. Much of the book is the cover-up and Adam's interaction with supposedly a bumbling (but not so) Italian police officer Cavellini.Although, I liked the ending, getting to the end was challenging. I could not visualize Venice, even though I've been there. I couldn't understand, many times, who was talking and about whom. There was a lot of repetition..."we must get our stories straight", etc. If you're not familiar with the differences between Fascists, Nazis, etc., you lose much of the political atmosphere.So, in conclusion, Alibi was OK, not stellar.
    • 4/5
      It was worth reading through the entire book, which at times seemed to be going nowhere, to get to the final chapters that were so full of twists and surprises.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing. I've been to places in Venice that are mentioned in the book, so the recognition was enjoyable. However there's a plot twist half-way through that makes the second half quite unbelievable and the characters remained two-dimensional.His previous book The Prodigal Spy was much more convincing.
    • 3/5
      While I enjoyed this book as I usually enjoy Kanon's work, it doesn't stand up to his earlier work. The characters and places are flatter and less engaging, and the story leaves something to be desire--it wasn't bad, just not great. If you're new to Kanon, I'd start with a different book, and then try not to be too disappointed when you get to this one. If you're more of a traditional mystery reader than suspense, and don't mind a slow-to-casual pace, this might be more up your alley.
    • 4/5
      A brooding novel set in post wwii venice
    • 2/5
      Very dark mystery, somewhat disturbing. I didn't particularly care for it.