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Bezig met laden... Give Unto Othersdoor Donna Leon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I always look forward to sitting down for a few hours in the company of Commissario Guido Brunetti. I look forward to the time he spends with his wife and his children (the latter don't show up this time). I enjoy listening in as he works with his friends and colleagues Vianello & Griffoni, and with computer wizard Signorina Elettra. The story is almost incidental. But this one, a post-pandemic tale is as usual a good one. It involves a former neighbour who comes and talks - unofficially - about some concerns she has about the business in which her husband and son-in-law have been involved. As ever, layers unpeel to reveal dark secrets and shenanigans. Tricky moral questions arise for Brunetti to wrestle with. How involved should he be? No, I'm not going to say any more. If you're a Donna Leon fan you'll be keen to read this whatever I say. If you're not yet - hurry up! Grab whichever of this series you can get hold of. I've been hooked for twenty years. I'm sure you will be too. ( ) Give Unto Others is written by Donna Leon. “What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series.” (Amazon) A brilliant philosophical puzzle. Every title in this highly acclaimed series focuses on a general malady/issue/problem/crime and in every title Guido Brunetti uses logic, reason and philosophy to ‘solve’ the problem and find some sliver of justice or accountability. We are on Book #31 now (31 out of 32 titles with #33 to be published in July 2024). Issues/problems/crimes include, but are not limited to, stalking, the treatment of women, senility & dementia, medical issues, criminality, deceit, pollution, the environment, theft, corruption, wealth, water, safety, human trafficking, fishing, greed, jealousy, academia, opera, immigrants, military academies, religion, accounting, charity scams, police & policing methods, & computer hacking. a superb title and superb series ***** https://www.instagram.com/p/C1f6YfsLvpG/ Donna Leon - Give Unto Others: Her most brilliant one yet, weaving psychological manipulation and self-victimization into a compelling narrative (this is much more enthralling then that sounds). #cursorybookreviews #cursoryreviews Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to do a favor for a former neighbor because her mother had been kind to his mother. Her daughter has confided in her that some unspecified danger threatens her husband and, by extension, herself. Her concern for her only child motivates her to seek out her old acquaintance in the Questura. Guido enlists the help of his colleagues Griffoni, Vianello, and Signorina Elettra to do some unofficial exploring. Their research soon leads them to a dodgy charity founded by the former neighbor’s husband. Will Guido and his colleagues finally pay the price for their off-the-books investigative methods? I found this latest Brunetti novel less satisfactory than most of the series books that precede it. First of all, it’s not a homicide investigation. Secondly, Brunetti has had back-of-his-mind worries about his team’s unorthodox investigations throughout most of the series without these fears being realized, so why would it be any different this time? The tension feels exaggerated. The main thing this book accomplishes is to show that Fraud is the theme of this installment of the Guido Brunetti series - both financial and personal. Brunetti is confronted by a person from his past - a childhood neighbor, Elisabetta, asks him as a favor to try to find out what is wrong with her son-in-law and why her daughter should be frightened and feel threatened. Since Elisabetta's mother was kind to him as well as his brother and mother, he makes an effort to see if there is something that could be wrong. The deeper he and a few of his team delve, the more it appears that it is Elisabetta's husband that is the problem, not her son-in-law. Ah, the tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive. It was very entertaining to watch as the frauds are exposed and the ramifications. Not one of her best, but still good to see Guido in action. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Guido Brunetti (31)
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters. What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. 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. Foscarini's son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he's involved with. Since Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti logically suspects the cause of danger is related to the finances of a client. Yet his clients seem benign: an optician, a restaurateur, a charity established by his father-in-law. However, when his friend's daughter's place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favors - that his colleagues Claudia Griffoni, Lorenzo Vianello, and Signorina Elettra Zorzi assist his private investigation, which soon enough turns official as they uncover the dark and Janus-faced nature of a venerable Italian institution. Exploring the wobbly line between the criminal and non-criminal, revealing previously untold elements of Brunetti's past, Give Unto Others shows that the price of reciprocity can be steep. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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