Suffer the Little Children

donna leon

Donna Leon’s charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti series continues with Suffer the Little Children. When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has left the doctor mute? Who would have authorized such an alarming operation? At the same time, Brunetti’s colleague Inspector Vianello discovers a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. But it appears as if one of the pharmacists is after more than money. Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and fascinating as ever, set in a beautifully-realized Venice, a glorious city seething with small-town vice.

Genres mysteryfictionitalycrimemystery thrilleraudiobookdetectivethrillercontemporaryitalian literature

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2007

Series

Commissario Brunetti

Places

venice,

This edition

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Published: May 10, 2007 by Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871139603
ASIN: 087113960X
Language: English

Characters More characters

Commissario Guido Brunetti

Main Character....
Paola Brunetti

Guidos wifemore...
Lorenzo Vianello

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Vice-questore Giuseppe Patta

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Signorina Elettra

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About the author

donna leon

Donna Leon (born September 29, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for over twenty-five years. She has worked as a lecturer in English Literature for the University of Maryland University College - Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy, then as a Professor from 1981 to 1999 at the american military base of Vicenza (Italy) and a writer.

Her crime novels are all situated in or near Venice. They are written in English and translated into many foreign languages, although not, by her request, into Italian. Her ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000.

Series:
* Commissario Brunetti