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|title=Blood From a Stone
|author=Donna Leon
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 14th novel in the Commissario Brunetti series looks at illegal immigration and it's its effect on Venice. It's well-plotted with good characterisation but probably not one that you would read again. Borrow it and enjoy it.
|rating=4
|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|pages=320
|publisher=Arrow
|date=March 2006
|isbn=0099474182
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0099474182</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=0099474182|aznus=<amazonus>0099474182</amazonus>
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It's late December and Venetians are milling around the Christmas Market in Campo Santo Stefano. The vu cumprà - illegal immigrants - are there selling counterfeit bags from sheets on the ground, when two men enter the square and one of the immigrants is shot five times. The only witnesses are some American tourists. It has all the hallmarks of a professional hit, but who would go to all that trouble to kill an illegal immigrant who owns nothing, has no influence?
If this book appeals you might also like to read our review of Michael Dibdin's [[Dead Lagoon]], an Aurelio Zen mystery, also set in Venice. If you're interested in crime novels which deal with the subject of immigration then you might well enjoy Ian Rankin's [[Fleshmarket Close]].
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[[Fatal RemediesDonna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti Novels in Chronological Order]]{{commenthead}}
