Give Unto Others

Crime writing of the highest order * Guardian * The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement - in its own way quite the equal of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time * The Times * Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon, the expatriate American with the Venetian heart . . . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever * The Washington Post * Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted ... reading Leon is always an uplifting experience -- Mark Sanderson * The Times * Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has simply kept it up * Guardian * Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti -- Val McDermid Leon's elegant, witty prose . . . is a joy. One of the best European novelists around -- Amanda Craig Give Unto Others is both tremendously enjoyable and deeply humane. As much about love as it is about crime, and rich with Venetian detail -- Jessie Greengrass, Costa-shortlisted author of The High House It may be Donna Leon's 80th birthday this year, but it is her readers who will be getting a present, in the form of a new Commissario Brunetti novel -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times * Give Unto Others is no less mysteriously compulsive than its 30 predecessors . . . Thanks for giving such civilised pleasure for half a lifetime -- AN Wilson * The Tablet * A gently paced, emotionally acute story of betrayal and revenge. * Mail on Sunday * Sumptuous and intensely satisfying, it reminds us what an extraordinary gift Leon has given us * Daily Mail Ireland *

Donna Leon is author of the much-loved, best-selling series of novels featuring Commissario Brunetti and one of The Times' 50 Greatest Crime Writers. Widely considered one of the best detective series ever, with admirers including Ursula K. Le Guin and Antonia Fraser, the Brunetti Mysteries have won numerous awards around the world and been translated into thirty-five languages.