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Donna Leon bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this belo...
A body has washed up on the shores of a canal, but has left Commissario Guido Brunetti with little to work with. In addition to being ravaged by the seas, the body has no identification of any kind. Furthermore, no one h...
ttending a performance by a opera star he once saved, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti's wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nigh...
Late one night, Commissario Guido Brunetti's telefonino rings. A old woman's body has been found in a Spartan apartment on Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio. Brunetti sees some signs of force on the old woman, but they could j...
The mentally handicapped man who worked at Brunetti's dry cleaners has just died of an overdose, and Brunetti's wife Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing or helping him. To please his wif...
Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns that cases at the ...
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown. She survived thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who pulled her out, though not before she suffere...
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment while the family was ...
Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing room, she finds bouquets of yellow roses, but she no longer feels flattered. A few nights later, inv...
When Brunetti is granted leave from the Questura, his wife, Paola, suggests he stay at the villa of a relative on SantErasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his ni...
The New York Times -bestselling series transports us to "Donna Leon's enticing, troubled and beautiful Venice . . Her latest mystery is one of her best" ( Providence Journal ). A New York Times Book Review Best Crime Boo...
Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of an animal lover whose decomposed body was found in a Venice canal. Sequel to "Drawing conclusions", followed by "The golden egg". 2012.
Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favour. But the investigator is not the only one with a spec...
When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a d...
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse bu...
Brunetti finds himself fighting a lone battle to prove the innocence of a Romanian housekeeper accused of brutally murdering her miserly employer. With the odds stacked against her from the onset of the investigation whe...
A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity trainches Suspecting a...
On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. the closest witnesses are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death--fake handbags...