

Suffer the Little Children
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/01/2007
Author: Donna Leon
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/01/2007
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.
Suffer the Little Children, the 16th book in the series and we are taken back to the sights, smells, sounds and the life warm-hearted, insightful, and honorable Commissario Brunetti's beautiful and secretive city, Venice. A story of the murky underworld of illegal adoption, where babies are bought fo......more
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“[A] stunning procedural series.”
New York Times Book Review“One of Venice’s greatest contemporary chroniclers...The smells, flavors, sights and sounds all come flooding to life…Leon has her finger on the pulse.”
Daily Mirror. praise for Death at La Fenice“First-rate and masterful…Leon seldom delivers a ‘feel good’ ending, choosing instead conclusions that are wise and inevitable while still being unsettling.”
Publishers Weekly