Blood from a Stone - Softcover

Leon, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143117092 ISBN 13: 9780143117094

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2010

Synopsis

Title: Blood from a Stone <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: DonnaLeon <>Publisher: PenguinBooks

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Review:

The latest of Donna Leon's novels about principled Venetian cop Brunetti, Blood from a Stone is one of her timeliest. Two mysterious white men carry out a professional hit on one of the Somali traders who illegally hawk counterfeit luggage in a local square, and for some reason, Brunetti's superiors are remarkably keen that the case be left unsolved. Is this mere casual institutional racism, or something even more sinister? Brunetti, like many other fictional policemen, has no particular gift for obedience to unreasonable orders, and has also a left-wing academic wife to prod his already active conscience. Donna Leon is not usually as political as she is here; this is one of her more biting thrillers in its indictment of international trade and the security state.

Brunetti has rarely been this melancholy--this is a thriller set in the dead of a Venice winter, and the cold, wet winds eat into our bones as we read. ---Roz Kaveney

Review:

'Wonderfully familiar characters, a powerful sense of place and expert plotting' -- Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143117092
• ISBN 13: 9780143117094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304