# A Refiner's Fire

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- Book: [A Refiner's Fire](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-leon/a-refiners-fire) ([A Refiner's Fire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-leon/a-refiners-fire.md))
- Authors: [Donna Leon](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-leon)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0495-096-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s 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 brutal attack on one of Brunetti’s colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti’s attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte’s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption. A Refiner’s Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly interrogates the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.