A refiner's fire Author Forename:Donna Adlam's complex narrative brings to

Adlam's complex narrative brings to life the lost legacies of early crime fiction and the first women journalists and detectives

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A refiner's fire Author Forename:Donna Adlam's complex narrative brings toWhen two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice'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's colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions. Soon, he discovers