Give unto Others - Donna Leon

Give unto Others

By Donna Leon

  • Release Date: 2022-03-15
  • Genre: Police Procedural
Score: 4
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From 190 Ratings

Description

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters.

What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series.

Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti’s mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Foscarini’s son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he’s involved with. Since Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti logically suspects the cause of danger is related to the finances of a client. Yet his clients seem benign: an optician, a restaurateur, a charity established by his father-in-law. However, when his friend’s daughter’s place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favors—that his colleagues Claudia Griffoni, Lorenzo Vianello, and Signorina Elettra Zorzi assist his private investigation, which soon enough turns official as they uncover the dark and Janus-faced nature of a venerable Italian institution.

Exploring the wobbly line between the criminal and non-criminal, revealing previously untold elements of Brunetti’s past, Give Unto Others shows that the price of reciprocity can be steep.

Reviews

  • Wonderful read

    5
    By Kathryn-Ashe
    As usual, the author has given us a great story, with an ending much truer to life than fiction. Now the waiting at least one year for the next installment.
  • Give Unto Others

    5
    By nmp apps
    A new Leon novel is never just one more in a series. Each is it’s own gem. Give Unto Others is a star among stars, very different from some of the previous entries, a psychological twister where the character’s usual strengths become weaknesses in solving the puzzle.

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