Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 288 |
Format | 15,2 x 23,3 x 2,1 cm |
Trade paperback (UK) | |
Gewicht | 357 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781529154375 |
Bestell-Nr | 52915437UA |
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.
Rezension:
Crime writing of the highest order Guardian