Published: 1 June 2010
ISBN: 9781407070445
Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 368

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Crime & mystery

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Blood From A Stone

(Brunetti 14)

Donna Leon

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The stunning fourteenth Commissario Brunetti mystery takes our detective into a world of illegal immigrants and diamond smuggling, from bestselling crime writer Donna Leon.

On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label - but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police.When Commissario Brunetti arrives on the scene, he finds it hard to understand why anyone would murder an illegal immigrant. They have few social connections and little money; in-fighting among them is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake in the immigrant community...

Published: 1 June 2010
ISBN: 9781407070445
Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 368

Categories:

Crime & mystery

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About the author

Donna Leon

Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world.

Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.

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Praise for Blood From A Stone

Leon writes with great literary panache and evocative power about the world's most beautiful and mysterious city.
Spectator

Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city, and Brunetti, sturdy family man and cynic, is an endearing guide into the machinations of Italian society.
The Times

It would be simply perverse not to acknowledge [Leon's] skill ... The reader comes to look forward to Paola's elegant Venetian lunches as much as Brunetti does ... The plot of Blood from a Stone both stands up to and complements the cast ... Comfort reading of the highest order.
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