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Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
by Donna Leon
from Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Suffer The Little Children
  Leon is an excellent writer who presents a mystery while describing the life styles of the characters in fascinating detail. An outstanding read!
  

• Don't approach as standard mystery
  "Suffer the Little Children" is the sixteenth in the Commissario Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon. Its setting is a seductive Venice, where there seems to be a disproportionately high crime rate if fiction is to believed. Brunetti is called into hospital where a respected pediatrician has been taken after being beaten by the Carabinieri (military and police corps). The enraged doctor's wife informs Brunetti that they were asleep when three men broke into their home, took their little boy by force, and... more info

• Biased and grossly inaccurate
  I began reading this book upon advice of a friend, and I was terribly disappointed: many times I was tempted to dump it, and I reached the end in the (vain) hope of a coup-de-theatre that never came.
  Ms Leon has a very limited knowledge of Italian history and criminal laws. At the same time, she has lots of prejudices and doesn't hesitate to recur to lies and slander in order to justify them.
  For instance, it is obvious that she doesn't like the military. That may be one of the reasons that made... more info

• Suffer ..... Children by Leon
  Simply wonderful as are all of her Brunetti mysteries. I've read them all and now am finally going to visit her beloved Venice. I hope it doesn't disappoint because her books sure don't

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