Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through a Glass, Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, and most recently, The Girl of His Dreams.
Donna Leon is keeping up an astonishingly high standard ... she achieves a perfect blend of characters, place, mystery and social issues. Her sixteenth Brunetti novel is also one of her best. * The Times * Leon builds her plot meticulously. [She] has her finger on the pulse * Mirror * Suffer the Little Children is Donna Leon at her best, deftly mixing Commissario Guido Brunetti's detective work with perceptive awareness of social issues. * The Times * Leon tackles this difficult issue sensitively, without stinting on mouth-watering descriptions of Venice. * Daily Telegraph * As ever, Leon writes with an insider's knowledge of Venice, expertly navigating its complex geography. * Sunday Times *