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Blood from a Stone

Donna Leon
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Author : Donna Leon
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Description The stunning fourteenth Commissario Brunetti mystery takes our detective into a world of illegal immigrants and diamond smuggling, from bestselling crime writer Donna Leon. 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 - fake handbags of every designer label - 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 in the immigrant community...
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300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher Ballantine Books (imprint of Ballantine Publishing
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Language eng
Page count 368
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Publication date first 2009-02-28
Publication date latest 2009-02-28
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  • ISBN: 9780099536543 (BC)

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