Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)

The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band ofarmed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrollisapartment, fracture his skull and grab his eighteen-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti, pulled from bis bed by the news, arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent pediatrician 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 ones neighbours can lead to all kindsof corruption and all sorts of pain.

Categories: Literary Fiction