ISBN: 9780802159403
Editorial: Atlantic Monthly Press
Autor: Leon, Donna
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 295
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: **An Instant New York Times Bestseller**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 watersWhat 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 thirty-first 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.ReviewPraise for Give unto Others:**An Instant New York Times Bestseller**An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense)“Meddling from above is aggravating but not surprising to Brunetti. Throughout Ms. Leon’s long-running series, he’s had to deal with all sorts of ambitious and untrustworthy types, chief of which is the “ever-helpful” Lt. Scarpa . . . No matter. Brunetti goes door to door, seeking valuable information on behalf of his old neighbor. The cultivated Commissario, seeking the truth behind this strange imbroglio, reads the heart all the way back to Greek tragedy’s bitter truths.”—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal“The book is steeped in a gray, murky atmosphere as Leon describes the pandemic-related devastation of Venice’s tourist-dependent economy—a devastation that mirrors Brunetti’s inner turmoil as he tries to determine where his loyalty lies in the increasingly disturbing—and puzzling—investigation.”—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post“Leon’s thirty-first novel in the Brunetti series is about human weakness of all kinds: drugs, dementia and dietrologia or, to put it another way, the need to know. Isn’t that why we read mystery novels? There has always been another reason to read Leon: the sheer elegance and wit of her prose. Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted . . . Acknowledges the horrors that lurk in daily life.”—Times (UK), “Book of the Month”“One of her strongest works . . . As Venice’s winter chill comes, so do revelations that keep Brunetti chasing the answer to the Foscarini puzzle. The pace of this novel is slow and stately but save it for the weekend when you don’t have to put it down even for a meal.”—Globe and Mail“Donna Leon doesn’t write thrillers — quite the opposite. Guilt or innocence, just what kind of crime has been committed, if any, depends so much on a character’s own sense of ethics and integrity and, indeed, on the reader’s. Yes, Give unto Others is a whodunit, and a whydunit, and a howdunit, but it’s quite unlike any other mystery writer’s view of the world. Find a comfortable chair, pour a goblet of Italian wine, maintain social distancing at all times and settle back for several hours of living inside Guido Brunetti’s head.”—Nick Martin, Winnipeg Free Press“Unarguably one of the most humane—and absorbing—of the series . . . The dilemmas demand the best of Bru
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