Title: Suffer the little children
Subtitle: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
First published: 2007
Description: 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: Mystery, Physicians, Kidnapping, Police, Crimes against, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Pediatricians, Pharmacists, Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character), Brunetti, guido (fictitious character), fiction, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Venice (italy), fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
Places: Venice (Italy), Venice, Italy