Blood From A Stone

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Book Title: Blood from a Stone : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2014

Item Height: 0.8 in

Topic: Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 9 Oz

Author: Donna Leon

Item Length: 8.2 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Book Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback