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Loading... Blood from a Stone. (original 2005; edition 2006)by Donna Leon
Work InformationBlood from a Stone by Donna Leon (2005)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 | “On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in Campo San Stefano.” “The dead man was one of many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Once Commissario Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. And his boss’s warning to avoid getting involved only makes Brunetti more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing.” An outstanding series. ***** (  ) diana.hauser | Nov 26, 2023 | Donna Leon Publicado: 2005 | 229 páginas Novela Policial Serie: Comisario Brunetti #14 /sjMayKwOo_G4 Una fría noche, poco antes de Navidad, un vendedor ambulante africano es asesinado mientras intenta vender imitaciones de bolsos de diseño a unos turistas. ¿Por qué querría alguien matar a un inmigrante ilegal? La respuesta más obvia es la primera aceptada: un ajuste de cuentas entre ellos. Pero cuando Brunetti y sus fieles aliados, Vianello y la signorina Elettra, investigan en los bajos fondos venecianos descubren que entre la sociedad inmigrante hay en juego asuntos de mucho mayor calado. El descubrimiento de pruebas críticas y las oportunas advertencias de su superior para abandonar el caso no hacen sino aumentar la determinación de Brunetti para esclarecer este misterioso asesinato. Con catorce casos resueltos y un clamoroso éxito internacional, Donna Leon está considerada una de las más importantes damas de la novela negra actual. libreriarofer | Sep 19, 2023 |  ) witchyrichy | Apr 30, 2023 |
 In this stunning novel, the 14th to feature the dogged, intuitive Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti (after 2004's Doctored Evidence ), Leon combines an engrossing, complex plot with an indictment of the corruption endemic to Italian society. Leon’s most adroit balance of teasing mystery, Brunetti’s droll battles with his co-workers and higher-ups, and intimations of something far deeper and darker behind the curtain. Is contained inHas the adaptation
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HTML:When an immigrant dies on a Venice street, it will take a determined detective to pursue the case to its shocking end: "[An] outstanding series." �??Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor 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. The dead man was one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Once Commissario Guido Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. And his boss's warning to avoid getting involved only makes Brunetti more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. "[A] stunning novel . . . an engrossing, complex plot." �??Publishers Weekly, starred review "The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon's long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his role as an Everyman . . . [his life is] not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life." �??B No library descriptions found. |
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