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It's a city where you're only a phone call away from someone who can put you in personal touch with the person who interests you. Leon is American. She no longer lives in Venice (she still spends about a week a month there) but I cannot help but think of her as European if not Italian.
The characterisation is - as ever - perfect. You'll meet old friends but still connect with all the characters even if you've not met them before. Every one of them comes off the page fully formed but with no wanted wasted words. And the plot? Well, it's exquisite. I gave up trying to work out what was going to happen very early in the book - I was content just to be in the story - but the needing ending still took me completely by surprise. It was perfect. ''Give Unto Others'' is a superb read and highly recommended.
I think we're all tired of the pandemic but I was quite shocked to realise what it had ''really'' been like at the beginning when I read [[The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]].
