Blood From A Stone
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  • Published: 26 February 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099536543
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

Blood From A Stone

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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.

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

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, 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.

'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The Times
  • Published: 26 February 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099536543
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99
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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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Death at La Fenice
Transient Desires
The Temptation of Forgiveness
Unto Us a Son Is Given
Give Unto Others
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Praise for Blood From A Stone

The thoughtful and charming [Brunetti] is on top form . . . His nicely balanced world . . . is cumulatively engrossing. In this domestic detail, Leon roots the power of the ordinary, moral individual

Sunday Times

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

TLS

The fabulous Donna Leon

Antonia Fraser, Spectator

[Leon's] passion for all things Venetian - churches, palaces, statues and especially the food - comes over loud and clear whenever Brunetti steps from his apartment into the street . . . No one writes about the grey areas of life better

The Guardian