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PublisherCengage GALE

ISBN-101432862065

ISBN-139781432862060

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038737199

Product Key Features

Book TitleUnto USA Son Is Given

Number of Pages398 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreFiction

AuthorDonna Leon

Book SeriesA Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Ser.

FormatLibrary Binding

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813.54

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisA New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Commissario Guido Brunetti MysteryWhen Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda makes plans to adopt a young man -- making him the heir to his fortune -- Conte Orazio Falier urges his son-in-law, Guido Brunetti, to investigate the matter. Then Gonzalo unexpectedly dies, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder -- a resolution that brings him much more pain than satisfaction., "Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us a Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary", Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room - having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this", referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder - a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.