Title: Blood from a Stone
First published: May 2005
Description: An unidentified African street vendor is executed in front of tourists in the middle of Venice.  Guido Brunetti, the policeman who usually must solve the problem, is further challenged when other Italian agencies get involved.  In parallel with the plot narrative, the characters reveal the societal conflicts and confusion in their attitudes toward legal and illegal immigration and how it is changing life in Venice.
Subjects: Mystery, Police in fiction, Murder, Police, Street vendors, Africans in fiction, Africans, Crimes against, Fiction, Murder in fiction, Mystery fiction, Investigation, Open Library Staff Picks, Street vendors in fiction, Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Brunetti, guido (fictitious character), fiction, Venice (italy), fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Crime, fiction
Places: Italy, Venice, Venice (Italy)
People: Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 2004