Give unto Others (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)

An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense)

"Meddling from above is aggravating but not surprising to Brunetti. Throughout Ms. Leon's long-running series, he's had to deal with all sorts of ambitious and untrustworthy types, chief of which is the "ever-helpful" Lt. Scarpa . . . No matter. Brunetti goes door to door, seeking valuable information on behalf of his old neighbor. The cultivated Commissario, seeking the truth behind this strange imbroglio, reads the heart all the way back to Greek tragedy's bitter truths."-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

"Leon's thirty-first novel in the Brunetti series is about human weakness of all kinds: drugs, dementia and dietrologia or, to put it another way, the need to know. Isn't that why we read mystery novels? There has always been another reason to read Leon: the sheer elegance and wit of her prose. Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted . . . Acknowledges the horrors that lurk in daily life."-Times (UK), "Book of the Month"

"Unarguably one of the most humane-and absorbing-of the series . . . The dilemmas demand the best of Brunetti, which is what he delivers."-Toronto Star

"The true victim of the crime at the center of this book is trust-in those we love and in ourselves as well . . . Even as an entry in such an idiosyncratic (and appealing) series, this case is one of the most personal our protagonist – a thoughtful, compassionate man – has faced. Fraud, and the lax Italian laws that accommodate it, may be at the center of this narrative, but the issues at its heart are human rather than legal: loss, aging, and the ways in which time plays on our character, for good or ill."-Arts Fuse

"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. There is no ambiguity about the unalloyed affection millions of readers feel toward Guido Brunetti, one of crime fiction's most popular protagonists."-Booklist (starred review)

"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...