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    "description": "<p>Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice&rsquo;s campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all. This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti&rsquo;s colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti&rsquo;s attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte&rsquo;s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption. A Refiner&rsquo;s Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly interrogates the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.</p>",
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