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Donna Leon
Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties
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Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man’s flat - something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere…
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The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers, and a paperback edition in 1995 by HarperTorch. – Title page verso.
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It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Inspettore Vianello come to the rescue of Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against…
Commissario Brunetti is faced with another dark mystery. It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving for its abducted son …
When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other…
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He discovers that her husband worked for a company that monitored the cleanliness of Venice’s water supply and that he had died in a motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice…
In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all.
In his many years as a Commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover…
The celebrated Venetian detective returns in his 31st case in a year of celebration for his author, Donna Leon
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDThe latest bestselling Venice crime novel from celebrated author Donna LeonAs a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to…
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade
'A delightful companion in life and on the page' The Times
'Donna Leon has…
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In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s…
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When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers.
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola…
Step into the romance and soul of a Venice where murder and intrigue hide
Originally published in the United States of America by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003.
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He believes the man’s death is connected to the illegal…
The fourth novel in the highly popular Commissario Brunetti series
Granted leave from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti decides to finally take a well-earned break and visit Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna.
When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher…
The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past
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When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of…
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon's magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was
Around one AM on…
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder
On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and…
The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties
In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and…
From the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon’s first stand-alone novel. Sworn…
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound…
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When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country, the maid…
"The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties."--
In the 27th novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences
A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel
As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, the weather is the last…
For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife. As Paola’s actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti…
The twisted maze of Venice’s canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death …but none so horrific and…
For the 28th novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery series, the apparent indiscretion of an elderly family friend involves a reluctant Commissario Guido Brunetti … until the sudden natural death…
Published in 2020 by arrangement with Grove/Atlantic, Inc. –Title page verso.
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola…
First published in 2007 in Great Britain by William Heinemann –Title page verso.
Endpaper map by A Martin Lubikowski, ML Design, London –Copyright page.
A stunning novel, the best of this brilliant series, with a twist at the end that will leave even the most sophisticated reader gasping. –Globe and Mail
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hutchinson Heinemann, an imprint of Random Penguin House"--Title page verso.
In the latest novel in the New York Times bestselling series, Brunetti’s retreat to a quiet island in the laguna is interrupted by a case of guilt and grief
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by William Heinemann –Title page verso.
