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Blood from a stone

In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leon, Donna (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Grove Press, [2005], 2014.
Series:	Leon, Donna. Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ; 14.
Subjects:	Brunetti, Guido > (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Street vendors > Crimes against > Fiction. Police > Italy > Fiction. Africans > Italy > Fiction. Venice (Italy) > Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Mystery fiction.
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Summary:	In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle.
Physical Description:	276 pages
ISBN:	9780143117094 0143117092
Author Notes:	Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Bowker Author Biography)