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008			190613s20192019nyub 000 1 eng
020			_a9780802129116(hardcover)
050	0	0	_aPS3562.E534 _bU58 2019
082	0		_aMYS LEO _2
100	1		_aLeon, Donna
245	1	0	_aUnto us a son is given _c/ Donna Leon.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Atlantic Monthly Press _c, c2019
300			_a259 pages _b: maps _c; 24 cm.
490	0		_aA Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
500			_aMaps inside front and back covers.
520			_aYour 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 Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under 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 one of his friends 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.
546			_aEnglish
650	1	4	_aBrunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) _x-Fiction
650	1	4	_aMurder investigation _v--Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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