Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with polit[...]
Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. The victim appears to be[...]
Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera - a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silen[...]
A lorry crashes on one of the treacherous bends in the Italian Dolomites, spilling a terrible cargo ...A prominent international layer is found dead in the carriage of an intercity train at Saint Lucia ...Can the two tragedies possibly be connected? Commissario Guido Brunetti digs deep into the secr[...]
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage beating. The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: 'Don't keep that appointm[...]
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor'lmmacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di c[...]
First used in medieval Venice as a deftly maneuverable getaway boat, the gondola evolved over the centuries into a floating pleasure palace, bedecked in silk, that facilitated the romantic escapades of the Venetian elite. Today, the gondola wears black a gleaming, elegant hue, and is manned by robus[...]
When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Cla[...]
Le commissaire Brunetti re?oit la visite de Claudia, une jeune ?tudiante. Elle cherche ? r?habiliter son grand-p?re aujourdhui mort, jug? coupable dun crime commis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Brunetti m?ne lenqu?te et d?couvre que ce crime pourrait ?tre li? ? un trafic doeuvres dart. Mais lo[...]