Give Unto Others, Donna Leon
Give Unto Others, Donna Leon
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Give Unto Others

Bestseller

Author: Donna Leon

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

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 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 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 Foscarini’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.

About Donna Leon

American author, Donna Leon, has settled nicely into a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy entitled, Brunettixote. The novels feature the fictional character of Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Leon was born in 1942, and eventually lived in Venice, Italy for over 30 years. She was an English literature lecturer for the University of Maryland in Europe (Italy), and worked on a military base in Italy for several years, before she became a full time writer. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and also had a home in a smaller Swiss village.

The novels have been translated from English into several foreign languages, but for some reason the author did not approve them being translated into Italian. German television has shown 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes that they produced for broadcast.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 04, 2024

In Venice, the first wave of the pandemic is beginning to wane, with lockdowns and curfews at last being wound down. For months the city has seen a significant downfall in the number of crimes the police have been called upon to investigate, so when an ex-neighbour of Commissario Guido Brunetti call......more

Goodreads review by Sid on December 21, 2021

I have enjoyed the Brunetti books I have read, but for me this one wasn’t all that good. Brunetti is approached by a woman who knew him and his family long ago, asking his “advice”; she is worried about her daughter because of the behaviour of the daughter’s husband. Brunetti allows old loyalty to dr......more

Goodreads review by Javier on March 22, 2022

Review published in: [URL not allowed] Brunetti and the rest of Donna Leon’s characters have accompanied me for more than half my life, so reading her new novel has become a kind of yearly ritual to meet back some old friends and catch up with their lives. From a few installmen......more

Goodreads review by Shannon M (Canada) on October 06, 2024

I read “Give Unto Others”, #31 in Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti series immediately after I read “Transient Desires”, #30, but because I wasn’t feeling well, I never reviewed it. I thought it was not quite as good as “Transient Desires”, but I have given them the same rating. “Give Unto Others” is a 3.......more