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.
| ISBN: | 9781529154368 |
| Publication date: | 18th July 2024 |
| Author: | Donna Leon |
| Publisher: | Hutchinson Heinemann an imprint of Cornerstone |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 274 pages |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti Mysteries |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: police procedural Thriller: organised crime |