# A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon (Hardback)

**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'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 the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.  
  
_A Refiner'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.

## Details

- **Price:** 20.5 GBP
- **Vendor:** Cornerstone
- **Type:** Donna Leon
- **Tags:** All Books, Fiction, Thrillers

## Variants

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| Default Title | 20.50 GBP | In stock |

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> Updated: 2026-09-08