Give Unto Others (A Commissario Brunetti Mystery)

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Griffoni has played an increasing part in these tales of late and I think she offers an interesting counterbalance to the Venetian’s rather staid approach. But I'll be hoping that Brunetti is back to pondering the classics as he sorts through ethical dilemmas. The timeless Brunetti household is an oasis from any turmoil of the outside world, where Brunetti can curl up with his favourite classical Roman or Greek literature and consult Paola for her opinion on his current case. One of my favorite parts of the series is reading about Brunetti and his family life, and here that was moved to the very back with just a couple of appearances from Paola, so it was a bit disappointing. The author’s stories do, though, paint a warts and all picture of the city of Venice, showing us the underbelly of a place replete with high culture and wealth.

Una de las personas que favorecieron a sus padres aparece entre la niebla de la memoria adolescente. As the story progressed, it did gather its own kind of pace and once more, I appreciated the reflections on human nature and how its propensity to criminal activity continues undimmed.Donna Leon has always been good at character depiction and rounded description, but there’s a difference between that and a lot of superfluous verbiage; here there is far too much of the latter, I think. But otherwise this is both more of the same (the Falieris, as usual, know everyone) with Brunetti's little team of Elettra, Vianello and Claudia rallying round to do an off-the-books investigation, and not enough of the ingredients we have come to love. However, I think readers of the series have come to expect that alongside the detective story there will be references to his family.

If you have not experienced this world, so exotic and yet so familiar, you can pick up literally any volume in the series and begin a comfortable entry into Brunetti’s Venice. Why do you think some of the technicians appear unbothered while their chief, Bocchese, seems disturbed? Get told what seems a simple event, and soon it's expanding out of control; understand the basic facts, until a new variant appears.I have read one or two in this series before and so had some vague knowledge of the characters, however, you don’t really need to have read any of this series before there’s enough character info included to get the picture. They move onto a South American charity that Fenzo had helped Elisabetta's husband set up, the Belize nel Cuore, providing a hospital and medical services to the poor, a charity that was founded with a retired, ex-naval Vice-Admiral suffering from dementia. It was very obvious from early in the book what the crime was, and it was also obvious who was setting up the fall.