Blood from a Stone
(Brunetti 14)
Commissario Brunetti #14Donna Leon
ISBN: | 9780099474180 |
Publisher: | Arrow |
Published: | 2 March, 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Death at La Fenice
- 2 Death in a Strange Country
- 3 Dressed for Death
- 4 Death and Judgment
- 5 Acqua Alta
- 6 Quietly in Their Sleep
- 7 A Noble Radiance
- 8 Fatal Remedies
- 9 Friends in High Places
- 10 A Sea of Troubles
- 11 Wilful Behaviour
- 12 Uniform Justice
- 13 Doctored Evidence
- 14 Blood from a Stone
- 15 Through a Glass Darkly
- 16 Suffer the Little Children
- 17 The Girl of His Dreams
- 18 About Face
- 19 A Question of Belief
- 20 Drawing Conclusions
- 21 Beastly Things
- 22 The Golden Egg
- 23 By its Cover
- 24 Falling In Love
- 25 The Waters of Eternal Youth
- 26 Earthly Remains
- 27 The Temptation of Forgiveness
- 28 Unto Us a Son Is Given
- 29 Trace Elements
- 30 Transient Desires
- 31 Give Unto Others
- 32 So Shall You Reap
- 33 A Refiner's Fire
Blood from a Stone
(Brunetti 14)
Commissario Brunetti #14Donna Leon
On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomunitario, the dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits. Arriving on the scene, Commissario Brunetti's response matches that of everybody involved: why would anyone kill a vu cumpra? With few social connections and little money, in-fighting amongst these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the immigrant society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. However, reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of 'not worth dealing with', how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice's illegal community?
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