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Give Unto Others (A Commissario Brunetti Mystery)

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But Brunetti also decides to look into a charity that Enrico helped his father-in-law set up pro-bono, something that seems to have potential when his colleague Ispettore Lorenzo Vianello explains how little official oversight there appears to be on these entities. I gave up trying to work out what was going to happen very early in the book - I was content just to be in the story - but the ending still took me completely by surprise.

Thanks to NetGalley and Atlantic Monthly Press for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Is this what's happened here, or does it relate to what Elisabetta Foscarini has told Brunetti and Griffoni? Brunetti tells Paola that police are taught that “witnesses are unreliable, people repeat distorted versions of what they’ve seen or heard, and evidence is always open to question” (p. Brunetti takes a look and finds little: one client is an optician, another Fenzo`s father-in-law, whom he helped establish a charity, another the owner of a restaurant.

When he first started up on his own he did some work for his father-in-law, Bruno del Balzo, when he was setting up a charitable organisation. This one was painfully slow - not in the usual way of many mysteries in which the case takes time to get going. His inner monologue is often engaging, and his philosophical musings, for example about the similarities between pickpockets and those claiming pandemic handouts, are insightful. She discusses all sorts of background to the books and characters and also gives the reason that she won't allow the books to be translated into Italian (and it wasn't because she feared criticism by her neighbours in Venice). It was so nice to visit again with all the familiar players, stroll past familiar Venetian landmarks, stopping for a coffee along the way.

Brunetti] is a superb police detective—calm, deliberate, and insightful as he investigates with a reflective thoroughness. There is a central mystery, to be sure, but the characters and their evolving relationships are the driving force of the series as it explores Venice, its history, its culture and, of course, its crime.

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