A Refiner's Fire
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:18th Jul '24
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9781804950968)
![A Refiner's Fire cover](https://cdn.theportobellobookshop.com/img/9781529154368.jpg)
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.
Crime writing of the highest order * Guardian *
One of the best European novelists around -- Amanda Craig
The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement * The Times *
One of the most subtle and exquisite detective series ever * Washington Post *
This is Donna Leon at her very best, with rich characters and elegant, sophisticated storytelling * Dead Good Books - The best crime and thriller books of 2024 *
ISBN: 9781529154368
Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 27mm
Weight: 482g
288 pages