A Refiner's Fire

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 squares, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Leon, Leon Donna
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9781529154368
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-5436-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Venice, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller: organised crime