Give Unto Others: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

I just finished book #31 in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti series. I have only one more to read and I will have finished the entire series. And I sincerly hope, Ms. Leon continues to write the series. That said this is the first time I have ever given a review below 2 stars for this series. Mostly I have given 5 star reviews and a very few 4 star reviews. But I could not in good faith do that this time. The story dragged, and dragged and dragged! And I found myself thinking again and again "Get on with it....get to meat of the story!" But it never did seem to put the story together! I put down the book for days on end and then picked it up to start where I had left off....again. This book and it's story was just plain boring!! This was a real shock because as I said I have read through the first 30 books and loved every one of them...every one at least a 4 star or higher rating! Thinking it over I think I have the following to say. If you want to read the usual and wonderful police mysteries and police work of Commissario Brunneti....skip this one. If you want lessons on how the Financial Italian Government works at it's highest level, this is the book for you!! Please Ms. Leon, please when you write your next Commissario Brunneti book, stick to the police work in Venice and don't try to explain in detail how the Italian government works in other areas.