02400cam a2200349 i 4500 1473177147 TxAuBib 20240801120000.0 240515s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781420514742 1420514741 TxAuBib rda Leon, Donna, author. A refiner's fire / Donna Leon. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company, 2024. 423 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, A ; 33 "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 celebratedas 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20240801. Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) Fiction. Gangs Fiction. Police Italy Venice Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Venice (Italy) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, A ; 33. TXKPL