Blood From A Stone The Fourteenth Book In The Commissario Brunetti Mystery Series

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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.