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A Refiner's Fire

#33 in series

by Donna Leon
David Colacci
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In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon's magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was
Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq. Yet Monforte had never been awarded a medal either by the Carabinieri, his service branch, or by the Italian government.
That seeming contradiction, and the brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues, Enzo Bocchese, by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions.
Surprisingly empowered by Patta, supported by Signorina Elettra's extraordinary research abilities and by his wife Paola's empathy, Brunetti, with Griffoni, gradually discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.
A Refiner's Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly explores the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 9, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798892741583
      • File size: 272712 KB
      • Duration: 09:28:08

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      David Colacci, longtime narrator of the Inspector Brunetti mysteries, performs with confidence in this broody story that starts with teenage gangs wreaking havoc in Piazza San Marco and evolves into a tale of bullying and secrets in many quarters. As always in this series, corruption is rife in Venetian officialdom. Leon's writing emphasizes exposition over dialogue, so Colacci delivers most of the story in his distinctively American baritone, which contrasts sharply and often uncomfortably with his Italian character voices. As for characters, males and females are clearly differentiated, and the central personalities are distinct. Secondary people, who sound more Italian American than Italian, are given some well-chosen quirks. As befits a relaxed Italian approach to life, Colacci performs without hurry. Buon appetito to regular listeners. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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