»Another moving meditation on the vagaries of human relationships posing as a mystery novel.«

»Give Unto Others is both tremendously enjoyable and deeply humane. As much about love as it is about crime, and rich with Venetian detail.«

»This book is classic Leon: Brunetti is less focused on any actual crime than on figuring out whether some other unknown crime has been committed, whether he himself is doing something wrong by using official resources on an unofficial investigation, whether the ends of finding information he needs justifies Signorina Elettra's shadowy means of procuring it [...] Still the next best thing to moving to Venice.«

»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, Give Unto Others.«

»Give Unto Others is no less mysteriously compulsive than its 30 predecessors… Thanks for giving such civilised pleasure for half a lifetime.«

»There has always been another reason to read Leon: the elegance and wit of her prose. Virtually every page contains a sentence that demands to be quoted.«

»The pace of this novel is slow and stately but save it for the weekend when you don’t have to put it down even for a meal.«

»... reading Leon is always an uplifting experience, like a perpetually refilled first glass of champagne.«

»There is a central mystery, to be sure, but the characters and their evolving relationships are the driving force of the series as it explores Venice, its history, its culture and, of course, its crime.«

»A joy to read and to follow her nimble work in this literary fine fabric.«

»The cultivated Commissario, seeking the truth behind this strange imbroglio, reads the heart all the way back to Greek tragedy’s bitter truths.«

»Unarguably one of the most humane – and absorbing – of the series. [...] The dilemmas demand the best of Brunetti, which is what he delivers.«

»For those who know Venice, or want to, Brunetti is a well-versed escort to the nooks, crannies, moods, and idiosyncrasies of what residents call La Serenissima, the Serene One [. . .] Richly atmospheric, [Leon] introduces you to the Venice insiders know.«

»You can rely on Donna Leon.«

»What more could one ask for?«

»Brunetti fans will love this, because it reveals a lot about his personal life.«

»Donna Leon's Give Unto Others isn't about action, but far more about the psychological exploration of personalities we may encounter in day-to-day life.«

»It is a pleasure to follow her light-handed work on this fine literary fabric.«

»Leon’s thirty-first novel in the Brunetti series is about human weakness of all kinds: drugs, dementia and dietrologia or, to put it another way, the need to know. Isn’t that why we read mystery novels?«

»Still the next best thing to moving to Venice.«

»There is no ambiguity about the unalloyed affection millions of readers feel toward Guido Brunetti, one of crime fiction’s most popular protagonists.«

»The book is steeped in a gray, murky atmosphere as Leon describes
the pandemic-related devastation of Venice’s tourist-dependent
economy—a devastation that mirrors Brunetti’s inner
turmoil as he tries to determine where his loyalty lies in the
increasingl«