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Give unto others
Record details
- ISBN: 0802159400
- ISBN: 9780802159403
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Physical Description:
295 pages : map ; 24 cm
regular print - Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by Hutchinson Heinemann. Map on endpapers. |
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| Subject: | Venice (Italy) -- Fiction Families -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction Police -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction Brunetti, Guido -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Available copies
- 22 of 23 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 23 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salmo Public Library | FIC LEO (Text) | 35163000210455 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 December #2
*Starred Review* Even with Venice slowly emerging from the worst of the pandemic, the bodies of dead shops still line the canals, and most people shun the casual touching that was once a fixture of social interaction. In this newly distanced world, police commissario Guido Brunetti finds how much he misses the soft, caressing humanity of the past. And, yet, as he learns in this thirty-first episode in Leon's celebrated series, human connectedness can sometimes metastasize into a tangled mess of obligations. So it happens when a woman from Brunetti's own past, Elisabetta Foscarini, appears in his office, asking for the commissario's help. As a child, Brunetti had limited contact with the older Foscarini, but he knows that her mother was a friend to his mother and feels obligated to conduct an off-the-books investigation of whether Foscarini's son-in-law, an accountant, is involved in something shady. The line between an official and unofficial investigation is muddled when Brunetti and several of his colleagues uncover threads that might connect Foscarini's family to criminal activities, leaving Guido in an all-too-familiar quandary, weighing personal against professional obligations. Once again, Brunetti's remarkable empathy with people takes him into shark-infested waters, forced to confront how revenge, that deformed child of justice, fed itself with blind desire. Another moving meditation on the vagaries of human relationships posing as a mystery novel.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: There is no ambiguity about the unalloyed affection millions of readers' feel toward Guido Brunetti, one of crime fiction's most popular protagonists. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2022 February #2
Things are slow at the Questuraâperhaps there's less crime in Venice since the pandemic is keeping tourists away?âso Commissario Guido Brunetti has plenty of time to look into something that's been troubling an old neighbor. Brunetti had never really liked Elisabetta Foscarini when they briefly lived in the same building as teenagers, but her mother was kind to him, and more important, she was kind to his mother, who was raising a family with far less money than the Foscarinis. So when Elisabetta comes to see him at the Questura, telling him she's worried about her daughter, Flora, a veterinarian, Brunetti decides to look into it unofficially. Flora's husband, Enrico, is an accountant, and apparently he's been acting funny lately and told Flora it could be dangerous if people found out about something having to do with his work. Enrico helped Elisabetta's husband, Bruno, set up a charity several years earlier, and since then he's been working for a number of small clients. With the help of the usual crewâCommissario Claudia Griffoni, Ispettore Lorenzo Vianello, and the crafty secretary Signorina Elettra Zorzi, who Brunetti is finally prepared to admit (to himself) actually breaks the law in her pursuit of informationâBrunetti sets out to interview Enrico's clients and the people involved in Bruno's charity. Then Flora finds her clinic broken into and a dog injured: Is it a warning? This book is classic Leon: Brunetti is less focused on any actual crime than on figuring out whether some other unknown crime has been committed, whether he himself is doing something wrong by using official resources on an unofficial investigation, whether the ends of finding information he needs justifies Signorina Elletra's shadowy means of procuring it: "His opinion of that, he knew, had changed in the last few years, and he had grown more suspicious of the desire to expand the limits of the permissible." Still the next best thing to moving to Venice. Copyright Kirkus 2022 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2021 October
Celebrated Commissario Guido Brunetti is conducting a private investigation in this latest from celebrated mystery writer Leon. The daughter of one of his mother's close friends needs help; her son-in-law has confided that his family might be in danger because of his business, which seems to involve uncontroversial clients like an optician to a restaurateur. Then a scary act of vandalism prompts Brunetti's colleagues to join in the investigation.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2022 January #2
The specter of Covid-19 hangs over Venice in bestseller Leon's low-key 31st outing for Italian police detective Guido Brunetti (after 2021's
Copyright 2022 Publishers Weekly.Transient Desires ). Well-to-do Elisabetta Foscarini, who was a neighbor of Brunetti when they were teenagers, is concerned about her daughter, Flora, a veterinarian. Flora's accountant husband, Enrico Fenzo, has been acting strangely, and Signora Foscarini fears "he's doing something bad." Rather than suggesting she hire a private investigator, Brunetti agrees to break the rules and put his career in jeopardy to help her. At first, Brunetti suspects one of Enrico's clients may be threatening him in some way. When Flora's veterinary clinic is vandalized, the case begins inching in a more sinister direction. The usual snippets of history, philosophical musings, and clear-eyed comments on Italian behavior and culture, plus talk of flagging tourism and closing businesses, help compensate for the pallid plot, in which the only bloodshed is a big dog tearing off the ear of a little dog at the vet clinic. Established fans will enjoy spending time with the charming Brunetti, but this isn't the place to start for newcomers.Agent: Susanne Bauknecht, Diogenes Verlag (Switzerland). (Mar.)
