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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Unto us a son is given
  name:
    name part: Leon, Donna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Mystery fiction.
  genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 259 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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.--
  target audience: adult
  note: Donna Leon.
  note: Maps on endpapers.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Brunetti, Guido
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Brunetti, Guido
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Brunetti, Guido
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Adoption
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    topic: Investigation
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Police
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Adoption
  subject:
    topic: Criminal investigation
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Mystery & Detective
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Homicide
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    topic: Investigation
  subject:
    topic: Police
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
  classification: PS3562.E534 U58 2019
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: FIC022020
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Unto us a son is given
    name:
      name part: Leon, Donna.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019
      edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2018061211
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery
    name:
      name part: Leon, Donna
  identifier: 0802129110
  identifier: 9780802129116
  identifier: 9780802146823
  identifier: 2018058492
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181221
    record change date: 20250318214148.6
    record identifier: in00004172292
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng