Give Unto Others (A Commissario Brunetti Mystery)

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Brunetti ultimately realizes that because Elisabetta’s request was “clothed in the trappings of old friendship” (p. Le Guin and Antonia Fraser, the Brunetti Mysteries have won numerous awards around the world and been translated into thirty-five languages.

Is this what's happened here, or does it relate to what Elisabetta Foscarini has told Brunetti and Griffoni? 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. 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.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. When speaking to the junior officer Pucetti about Signorina Elettra’s methods, Brunetti realizes that he wants to avoid “[getting] himself involved . A woman Brunetti knew from his childhood seeks him out, allegedly to help figure out what is happening with her adult daughter.

As always, Brunetti is highly attuned to (and sympathetic toward) the failings of the humans around him.

It is a cozy world which is only occasionally interrupted by the criminal or ethical problems of those outside it.