Give Unto Others (A Commissario Brunetti Mystery)

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Sadly, Paola hardly appears and says very little and we don't even see Brunetti's family, usually a source of much warmth and light-heartedness. 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.

Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn’t always end in an arrest or a trial. The crime itself – if you can actually identify one – is often inconsequential to my enjoyment of these books, what I most enjoy is the verbal jousting that takes place between the various players and the frequent tangential musings on art, food, literature and history, or simply on the overt bureaucracy that is an inescapable component of life in this country. Feeling that he owes loyalty to Elisabetta's mother, who had been kind to him, he agrees to help and that there will be no police records kept. Brunetti's pace had slowed as he thought about the similarity between this disease and Elisabetta's story. For now, my re-visits are through Donna Leon’s annual slice of thought provoking fiction: her brilliantly observed characters; her highly tuned eye spotting things most casual observers would walk straight past; her intelligent insight into problems both modern and timeless.How this kindness than colours how we think of those associated with us and how we have to rethink what we've built our past on when we are much older and have more pieces to the puzzle. As is the case with most of the other 30 Brunetti novels that precede it , Give unto Others is a largely character- and milieu-driven novel.

Give Unto Others is the thirty-first book in the Commissario Brunetti series by award-winning American-born author, Donna Leon. It is clear that this is a warning against Brunetti looking into the situation that was brought to his attention.

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. But the deeper truth, when Brunetti uncovers it, admonishes him for forgetting to be a policeman when he most needed to. It is gradually revealed that there is indeed a crime behind the scenes, but that the reason for Brunetti being asked for a favour was more diabolical than initially thought.