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Donna Leon | Suffer the Little Children | English Title: Suffer the Little Children<br>Novel, 368 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
368 Pages
Published in June 2008

ISBN 978-3-257-06631-9

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Donna Leon
Suffer the Little Children

Published by Diogenes as Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen

Doctor Gustavo Pedrolli was still overjoyed in the evening. His adopted son Alfredo called him papà for the first time. Just a few hours later, armed men break into his apartment, beat Pedrolli down, and take the baby into their power. These are not kidnappers, but rather a special commando unit from the carabinieri. But why did Capitano Marvilli and his masked troops exercise such brutal force during their nocturnal razzia? When Commissario Brunetti is called in the middle of the night to the Ospedale Civile to take testimony from the pediatrician, who was beaten badly by one of the carabinieri, his questions remain hanging. Doctor Pedrolli is in a state of shock and has lost his ability to speak. Financial blessings and retribution, the blessings of children and the unfulfilled wish to have children: The family man Brunetti faces some hard decisions.

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»Donna Leon is keeping up an astonishingly high standard. In (...) ›Suffer the Little Children‹ she achieves a perfect blend of characters, place, mystery and social issues. (...) Her 16th Brunetti novel is also one of her best.«The Times

»Lovable family man Commissario Brunetti is back in the latest instalment of this charming but gripping crime investigation series, set in Venice. (...) Subtly chilling and laced with malice, it's enthralling. (...) The vibrant descriptions of the city, littered liberally throughout the novel, and the details of Venetian family life, keep this series feeling fresh and will hold your curiosity while feeling comfortingly familiar.«Woman

»But while Leon raises some cogent social points in the course of the usual page-turning stuff, it's never at the expense of her iron-clad storytelling skill. And Venice is conjured as atmospherically as we'd expect from a writer who does in words what Canaletto and Turner used to do in oils.«Express

»Before I started to write this review of the 16th mystery in Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, I reread the first, ›Death at La Fenice‹, curious to see if there was a great difference. I was happy to find the first not at all tentative, and the latest in no way stale or perfunctory. Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has simply kept it up.«Guardian

»First-rate and masterful.«Publishers Weekly

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