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In Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, at once astringent yet lyrical, two rival police forces—Brunetti and his Venetian colleagues and the carabinieri—are both interested in a doctor who illegally adopts an Albanian infant. When three carabinieri break into the doctor's apartment and seize the child at night, they injure the doctor, leaving him mute. Much of the early action takes place in a hospital, and because Venetian hospitals appear only slightly less bureaucratic and Kafkaesque than their stateside counterparts, Leon's marvelous insights into Italian life, so sharp when she explores a military academy in Uniform Justice or glassblowers in Through a Glass, Darkly, aren't as fresh, sinister or compelling here. But once the IVs and bandages give way to vandalism at a pharmacy and the family secrets of a neo-Fascist plumbing tycoon, Leon regains her stride and the novel's last fifth is first-rate and masterful. Leon seldom delivers a "feel good" ending, choosing instead conclusions that are wise and inevitable while still being unsettling. (May)
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On the face of it, there is very little crime in this latest installment in Leon's long-running and justly honored series starring beleaguered Venetian policeman Guido Brunetti. A case of police brutality sets Brunetti on the trail of an illegal-adoption ring and, from there, to a scam involving pharmacists and doctors. But genre readers waiting for the dead bodies to start piling up will have a long wait indeed; it isn't until the last 20 pages that any truly violent crime occurs. Leon's legion of fans, however, know that the Brunetti series isn't about crime as much as it is about more subtle human failings, and there are plenty of those here. Wherever Brunetti turns in this case, he is confronted by ethical dilemmas and by disastrously rigid responses to them. "I don't have any big answers, only small ideas," he laments, while tussling with what to do about the immigrant who sells her baby, the couple who adopts it, the pharmacist who adds moral judgments to every prescription he fills. In some of the best contemporary crime fiction, the heroes are often overwhelmed by the riptide of violence that threatens to consume their lives; Brunetti is equally overwhelmed but by a more insidious foe: our compulsion to judge others and the way those judgments ruin lives. "Nasty little bastard," Brunetti's wife, Paola, declares about one of the principal's in her husband's case. "Most moralists are," Brunetti replies. Bill Ott
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Adults Behave Badly Where Children Are Concerned, Mars 25 2008
This review is from: Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Hardcover)
Suffer the Little Children looks at the harsh side of how adults take a cavalier attitude toward the best interests of children, especially babies. In that sense, it's like an expose of the evils of modern society where adults are more concerned about their convenience than about the young.

If you would like to read such an expose, Suffer the Little Children will go down well.

But if you want a murder mystery, you'll look in vain for one in this story. In fact, the main mystery relates to how the carabiniere caught wind of an illegal adoption. Even that mystery is answered without much effort when Commissario Guido Brunetti finally focuses on the question.

The book starts off promisingly enough. A pediatrician and his wife in Venice fall asleep after making love. Their slumber is interrupted as a carabiniere team invades their home, smash the husband in the head, and take their adopted son away. At the hospital, Brunetti tries to find out what's going on and gets a few clues from the carabiniere captain who led the assault.

The whole issue soon begins to fade as the pediatrician's wounds heal and the guilt of his illegal adoption becomes more apparent. Curiously, no one seems to be very upset about the child being taken away to an orphanage but the pediatrician.

Separately, Vianello uncovers some illegal payments being taken by physicians and pharmacists. In the process, Vianello finds more than he expects.

Brunetti also finds out more than he wanted to know about the political influences that the police kow-tow to in Venice.

I found the book to be slow, tedious, and lacking enough focus to be interesting. The continual emphasis on the irony of adults treating babies like merchandise soon wears thin.

Unless you feel like you need to read all of the books in this series, you could definitely skip this one and not miss anything.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Running Out Of Steam, Juil 7 2008
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This review is from: Suffer The Little Children (Paperback)
A group of Carabinieri (police) burst into a senior paediatrician's house in the middle of the night attacking him and taking away his eighteen-month old baby. Injured he is sent to the hospital where Commissario Guido Brunetti is summoned to his bedside. What motivated such a violent assault by the police? Confronted with more questions than answers, the investigation brings Brunetti and his colleague, Inspector Vianello into a dangerous case involving a ring of baby traffickers and illegal money-making schemes.

This book is different from the usual murder investigation story Ms Leon writes but it is none the worse for that, some may be disappointed with the lack of suspense which makes the story a bit slow and at time tedious. As in all of her books she tackles a difficult and emotive subject, this one is of infertility, illegal child adoption and medical schemes. Attacking corruption seems to be Donna Leon's favourite theme this one is no exception. The everyday lives of the Brunetti family with details of their eating habits are still present, although I found Guido acted with less spark and enthusiasm. I wonder if Ms Leon is running out of steam, it is not one of her best.
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