A Refiner's FireCommissario 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 Venices 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

a boss who had a lot of money to do up his estate

he was unable to speak about what had happened

But what they do have is time

dies of a fever in the town of Beverley

and there are rumours that one of Lady Astair's Azazel orphans may be making his own bid for power

But what can she offer Charlie

‘Expertly mixes sorrow and grief

Now she was lying dead on her living room floor

Among them are famous names like Ernest Hemingway

Dreams of rage

Haunting and huge

No one but madmen or a band of 50 battle-scarred