LEADER 00000nim a22004695a 4500 003 MWT 005 20201110052858.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 201023s2019 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781980027829 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 198002782X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781980027829_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13535064 037 13535064|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Leon, Donna. 245 10 Unto us a son is given|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cDonna Leon. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2019. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 19 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 490 1 Commissario Brunetti ;|vbk. 28 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Narrated by David Colacci. 520 "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 Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane 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 his good friend Berta Dodson, 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Brunetti, Guido|c(Fictitious character)|vFiction. 650 0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction. 700 1 Colacci, David.|4nrt 710 2 hoopla digital. 800 1 Leon, Donna.|tCommissario Brunetti.|sSpoken word ;|vbk. 28 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13535064?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781980027829_180.jpeg