A Refiner's Fire - Commissario Brunetti Mysteries

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Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties

When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all.

This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.

A Refiner's Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly interrogates the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529154368
Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 30753
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 480g
Height: 241mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 29mm