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| Original Title: | Blood from a Stone (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries) |
| ISBN: | 014303698X (ISBN13: 9780143036982) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #14 |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
Donna Leon
Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 3.86 | 5292 Users | 395 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blood from a Stone (Commissario Brunetti #14) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 2006 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Crime |
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A pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change.Donna Leon's international best-selling and award-winning Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have been praised for their ability to place their readers into the thick of contemporary Venetian life. Now Blood from a Stone brings Commissario Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo Santo Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the American tourists who had been browsing the man's wares—fake designer handbags—before his death. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants peddling goods outside normal shop hours and trading without work permits.
Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? Because these workers have few social connections and little money, infighting seems to be the answer. And yet the killings have all the markings of a professional operation. Once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society.
While his wife, Paola, struggles to come to terms with their young daughter's prejudices about the immigrants, Brunetti finds that his own police force shares many of the same biases. Warned by Patta, his superior, to desist from further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth. How far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice's illegal community? And how high does the corruption reach into the upper echelons of Brunetti's own world and the world at large?
By a confirmed master storyteller, Blood from a Stone is a pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change.
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Ratings: 3.86 From 5292 Users | 395 ReviewsCrit Of Books Blood from a Stone (Commissario Brunetti #14)
Read 2013This novel was written 10 years ago, but could have been written today. The stone referred to here are the blood diamonds - diamonds that have been used to fuel civil war conflicts in various African countries. When a black man from Africa - the assumption is that he is Senegalese - is shot dead in what is obviously an assassination, Brunetti investigates. He searches the apartment that the man shared with several other men and finds a bag of uncut diamonds in a bag of sugar. It isn't long
The last Brunetti mystery I read (Doctored Evidence) left me feeling mostly cold - by then, I had read several of Leon's mysteries in rapid succession and was tired of her formula. But when I was in the library last week, browsing through the mystery section, I decided to revisit the Brunetti series. Even when the mysteries themselves aren't thrilling, I always enjoy reading about Leon's non-tourist view of Venice. Another factor that made me choose this particular book (which, apparently, comes
I've always enjoyed Ms. Leon's Brunetti series. I feel as if I'm in the middle of Venice, enjoying the foods, sounds, and people. This one doesn't disappoint in that manner.This mystery was darker than other Brunetti mysteries I've read. The murder of a vu cumpra and the politics that come with investigating a murder no one seems to care about (except for Brunetti) seems incredibly relevant in today's political climate. The vu cumpra's are masters at being invisible during the day and
Coming highly recommended by several friends and fellow bloggers I found both of these 'Brunetti' books (numbers 10 and 14 in the series) to be everything they said they'd be ...... and more. And having seen the characters develop over these two books fully intend to read the other books in chronological order.Crime capers set in exquisitely described Venice, I found both A Sea Of Troubles (book 10) and, Blood From A Stone (book 14) to be a bit more relaxed and less graphic, one could almost say
This suited my mood. I wanted a light yet intelligent book that transported me to another, somewhat exotic place. Maybe a crime novel, but not bloody and grim, just intriguing. Donna Leon's Commisario Brunetti novels can fulfill this need, and this one, true to form, sufficed nicely. Venice... that's the ticket. I've been there a couple times and wandered the streets for days on end. So some of what was in this book was familiar, but Leon takes us behind the tourist sights to visit however
Brunetti is by now a vehicle for the author to discuss aspects of corruption. Venice is a metaphor for Italy as a whole. We also see that Italy is part of Europe, and the rest of us around the EU will feel outraged at the casual and corrupt way in which undocumented African economic migrants are allowed into Italy illegally. Standing in the cold selling knockoff bags in the street, the Senegalese men in this story are presumed by one and all to be acting for the mafia. The bags are made in the
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