03122cam a2200409 i 4500 372921362 TxAuBib 20190314120000.0 181221s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018058492 9780802129116 0802129110 (OCoLC)1042108991 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCF NZLEP FBR OCLCO DAD IEP OCLCO ORX SXP IGA FMF YDX OI6 FMG OCLCO DPB UAP HQB OCLCO PCX MWD OCLCO FFL SAP IUK JBL TXMAL MJ8 PFLCL OCLCO TYV LKC IDLEW FLM CG4 TxAuBib rda Leon, Donna. Unto us a son is given / Donna Leon. First Grove Atlantic edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019. ©2019. 259 pages : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Commissario Brunetti series ; Maps on endpapers. "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 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. 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.-- Publisher's description. 20190314. Brunetti, Guido Fictitious character Fiction. Police Italy Venice Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Families Juvenile . Adoption Fiction. Venice (Italy) Fiction. Detective and mystery, Juvenile fiction. Mystery fiction. Commissario Brunetti series ;.