A Refiner's Fire

A Refiner's FireCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781804950968 Format: B format paperback Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: 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,

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781804950968
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
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.