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A Noble Radiance

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Format:	Paperback 289 pages

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In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave. Wild animals have done their grisly work and the human corpse is badly decomposed. Then a valuable signet ring is found close by, providing the first vital clue. It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving for their abducted son.

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Published
14/01/1999

Publisher
Arrow Books Ltd

ISBN
9780099269298

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Any one of Leon's Venetian novels is the next best thing to a stay in that beautiful, crumbling, corrupt city. And compared with family-man Commissario Brunetti, your average fictional policeman is one-dimensional. The bones that surface in the remote Dolomites when reassembled and dentally confirmed, could write finis to a famous kidnap-for-ransom case were Brunetti content to leave it at that. But why the contradictory versions of the deceased and his role in his patrician father's vast enterprises? Brunetti digs deep to find out. (Kirkus UK)