Suffer the little children
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
About this book
The wonderful new Commissario Brunetti mystery, from the Silver Dagger winner Donna Leon.The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli's apartment, fracture his skull and grab his eighteen-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti, pulled from his bed by the news, arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent paediatrician has suffered such a violent assault. But soon Brunetti begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and an underworld where babies can be bought for cash – linked with a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And knowledge can be as destructive as greed – certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain.
Subjects
- brunetti, guido (fictitious character), fiction
- crime, fiction
- crimes against
- detective and mystery stories
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- guido brunetti (fictitious character)
- kidnapping
- missing persons, fiction
- mystery
- pediatricians
- pharmacists
- physicians
- physicians, fiction
- police
- venice (italy), fiction