
Guido Brunetti, Book 31
by Donna Leon
This installment of Commissario Brunetti's long-running series reads as a patient moral puzzle with character and social detail prioritized over plot twists. Its useful part is the steady, empathetic attention to loyalty — how obligations to past ties and workplace loyalties complicate policing — which rewards readers invested in Brunetti's history. Its main limitation is pacing: conversations and introspection recur often, so readers wanting rapid suspense or a relentlessly driven mystery will find the middle stretches slow and occasionally repetitive.
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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 installme...
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