Donna Leon

Venetian Curiosities
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780434022069
RRP: $35.00

In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a city's mores, emblems of its identity. In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed novelist Donna Leon recounts some of Venice's most intriguing tales: an elephant brought in for Carnival wreaks havoc upon the city before seeking refuge in a ...

Drawing Conclusions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099559764
RRP: $19.95

VENICE: CITY OF LIGHT BUT UNDERNEATH BEATS A DARK HEART A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead on the floor. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Commissario Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for abused women and that her apartment was a safe-house. Convinced that this ...

Beastly Things
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780434021604
RRP: $52.95

When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end. It doesn't take long for Brunetti to realise why he remembers the dead man u he saw him at a demo...

Beastly Things
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434021611
RRP: $29.95

When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end. It doesn't take long for Brunetti to realise why he remembers the dead man - he saw him at a demo...

A Venetian Reckoning
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781447201649
RRP: $19.99

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 secret lives of the once great and good for the answer. For in a seedy Venetian bar lies the clue to ...

Acqua Alta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781447201656
RRP: $19.99

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 appointment with Dottor Semenzato." Then, with the storm clouds gathering fast over the city, ...

The Anonymous Venetian
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781447201632
RRP: $19.99

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 silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information...

The Death of Faith
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781447201663
RRP: $19.99

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 cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left her convent after the unexpected deaths of five patien...

Handel's Bestiary
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780434021529
RRP: $39.95

When acclaimed novelist Donna Leon is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, or revelling in delicious cuisine, she is listening to music. For Leon, patron of conductor Alan Curtis and his celebrated orchestra Il Complesso Barocco, that usually means the work of her favourite composer, George Frideric Handel. Over the years, Leon has noticed that the great musician filled his op...

A Question of Belief
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099547624
RRP: $24.95

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, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind; it appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and ...

Drawing Conclusions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434021444
RRP: $29.95

When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes that there is m...

About Face
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099533368
RRP: $19.95

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed u perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola u by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider...

Uniform Justice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099536659
RRP: $19.95

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students...

Death In A Strange Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099536598
RRP: $19.95

Early one morning Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti, robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man's flat - something which points to the existence of a high-...

Death At La Fenice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099536567
RRP: $19.95

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 nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer - poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city, is shocked a...

Girl of His Dreams
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099517641
RRP: $19.95

As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky, the tops of the Venetian cypress trees, moving gently in the spring breezes. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. 'There's nothing to remember about her except the good', she says. And that, thinks Brunetti, is exactly right. But then a ten-year-old gypsy girl, Ariana, is found d...

Through A Glass Darkly
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099536536
RRP: $19.95

It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello take a break from the Questura to come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon. But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the polluting glass foundries of the island of Murano, nor he whose bo...

Girl Of His Dreams
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434018031
RRP: $32.95

As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky, the tops of the Venetian cypress trees, moving gently in the spring breezes. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. 'There's nothing to remember about her except the good', she says. And that, thinks Brunetti, is exactly right. But then a ten-year-old gypsy girl, Ariana, is found d...

Death In A Strange Country: A Commissario Brunetti Novel
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099469377
RRP: $21.95

A re-issue of the second novel to feature Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police. 'The body floated face down in the murky water of the canal. Gently the ebbing tide tugged it along towards the open waters of the laguna that spread out beyond the end of the canal . . .' Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of...

Fatal Remedies: A Commissario Brunetti Novel
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099269304
RRP: $21.95

For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of ...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: The Death Of Faith
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330349499
RRP: $19.95

Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor' Immacolata, the nun who once cared for his mother at the casa di cura in Dolo. But Maria has recently left the convent after the unexpected deaths of five patients. ...

A Noble Radiance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780802145796
RRP: $18.95

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Beastly Things
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802120236
RRP: $32.95

Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of an animal lover whose decomposed body was found in a Venice canal. By the author of Venetian Curiosities. 50,000 first printing....

Venetian Curiosities
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802120311
RRP: $32.95

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Drawing Conclusions
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143120643
RRP: $19.95

With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious dead of a Venetian widow. By the author of About Face. Reprint. A best-selling novel....

A Question of Belief
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143118954
RRP: $19.95

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Handel's Bestiary
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802119964
RRP: $35.95

Complemented by a CD recording conducted by Alan Curtis, a literary, visual, and musical exploration of Handel's arias shares insights into the animal themes within his arias, tracing twelve animals through history, mythology, and Handel's operas....

Drawing Conclusions
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802119797
RRP: $31.95

With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious death of a Venetian widow....

Willful Behavior
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117582
RRP: $18.95

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, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia s...

A Question of Belief
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802119421
RRP: $31.95

Under the stifling summer sun, Venice is flooded with tourism. Commissario Guido Brunetti is planning the perfect mountain vacation where he can catch up on his reading. However, before he can go, an old friend has him look into a court corruption case. As he probes deeper, Commissario Brunetti quickly becomes embroiled in a shocking murder case that is linked to his own investigation....

Brunetti's Cookbook
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802119476
RRP: $32.95

A tribute to Venetian cuisine and the sumptuous descriptions of food that have peppered Donna Leon's popular Guido Brunetti mysteries features such recipes as eggplant crostini, pumpkin ravioli and roasted artichokes....

About Face
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143116592
RRP: $18.95

At the request of a carabiniere investigator, Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into illegal garbage hauling that has resulted in a murder, while Brunetti's father-in-law asks him to investigate a potential business partner with a mysterious wife....

Suffer the Little Children
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117117
RRP: $18.95

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Blood from a Stone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117094
RRP: $18.95

In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates after a street vendor is killed in a scuffle....

Through a Glass, Darkly
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117100
RRP: $18.95

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Doctored Evidence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117087
RRP: $18.95

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Uniform Justice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117070
RRP: $18.95

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Fatal Remedies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117056
RRP: $18.95

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Friends in High Places
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143117063
RRP: $18.95

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A Sea of Troubles
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143116202
RRP: $18.95

Investigating the murder of two local fishermen on the small island of Pellestrina, Commissario Brunetti is shunned by the small community and forced to search for clues at the home of Signorina Elettra, where he struggles with a growing attraction to his boss's secretary. By the Silver Dagger-winning author of Acqua Alta. Original....

The Girl of His Dreams
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115618
RRP: $18.95

Going undercover to investigate a new Protestant sect that has begun meeting in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti is forced to put his probe aside when the body of a young gypsy girl turns up in a local canal....

A Noble Radiance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115922
RRP: $18.95

The discovery of a badly decomposed corpse at a home not far from Venice reopens an infamous case of kidnapping that involves one of Venice's most important aristocratic families, as Commissario Brunetti races against time to uncover the truth about a chilling crime....

Quietly in Their Sleep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115939
RRP: $18.95

When Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once had cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door, after leaving her convent following the suspicious deaths of five patients, Brunetti launches a personal investigation into the situation....

Acqua Alta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115908
RRP: $18.95

Venice detective Guido Brunetti swings into action when the curator of Venice's most prestigious museum turns up dead, bludgeoned by a priceless artifact, and American archaelogist Brett Lynch, a close friend, narrowly escapes the killer....

Death and Judgment
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115915
RRP: $18.95

Detective Guido Brunetti becomes submerged in the seedy Venetian underworld as he tries to crack a prostitution ring run by wealthy and powerful citizens....

Death in a Strange Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115885
RRP: $18.95

Aggressively investigating an American's murder in tranquil Venice despite his superior's order to keep things clean and quiet, Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic waste cover-up with political ties....

Dressed for Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143115892
RRP: $18.95

An investigation into the vicious murder of a transvestite takes Venice Police Commissario Guido Brunetti on a trail that leads him into a confrontation with the highest levels of the financial world, the Italian government, and the Church....

The Girl of His Dreams
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780871139801
RRP: $31.95

Going undercover to investigate a new Protestant sect that has begun meeting in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti is forced to put his probe aside when the body of a young gypsy girl--who may have fallen from the nearby rooftop of an apartment she had robbed--turns up in a local canal....

Suffer the Little Children
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143113614
RRP: $10.95

A brutal attack on a pediatrician by a Carabiniere captain and two privates, who also take away the doctor's eighteen-month-old son, draws Commissario Guido Brunetti into a dangerous case involving a ring of baby traffickers....

Fatal Remedies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143112426
RRP: $11.95

When Commissario Guido Brunetti gets an early morning phone call that a sudden act of vandalism has just been committed, he soon discovers that the perpetrator is no petty criminal, but Paola Brunetti, his wife....

Quietly in Their Sleep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143112204
RRP: $10.95

When Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once had cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door, after leaving her convent following the suspicious deaths of five patients, Brunetti launches a personal investigation into the situation....

Death And Judgment
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143035824
RRP: $11.95

Detective Guido Brunetti is submerged in the seedy Venetian underworld as he tries to crack a prostitution ring run by wealthy and powerful citizens....

Blood from a Stone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143036982
RRP: $10.95

In a mystery that offers an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti plunges into the Venetian underworld of illegal African immigrants as he investigates the killing of a street vendor....

Dressed for Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143035848
RRP: $10.95

The discovery of the identity of a transvestite prostitute who has been found brutally murdered ignites a scandal and piques the suspicions of police commissario Guido Brunetti, who uncovers a connection among the victim, the city's most renowned institutions, and the underworld. Reprint....

Death at La Fenice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060740689
RRP: $18.95

When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice Police, must sift through several suspects to find a killer. Reprint....

Uniform Justice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142004227
RRP: $10.95

As Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti pursues his investigation into the supposed suicide of a young cadet at the city's elite military academy, he finds himself confronting the military's wall of silence, reluctant witnesses, and the possibilities of a conspiracy. Reader's Guide available. Reprint....

A Noble Radiance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142003190
RRP: $10.95

The discovery of a badly decomposed corpse at a home not far from Venice reopens an infamous case of kidnapping that involves one of Venice's most important aristocratic families, as Commissario Brunetti races against time to uncover the truth about a chilling crime. Original....

Death at LA Fenice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061043376
RRP: $10.95

When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice police, must sift through several suspects...

A Question of Belief
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410428707
RRP: $58.95

Longing to visit the cool mountains with his family during a brutally hot tourist season in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to help his inspector friend to safeguard an aunt's savings from an unscrupulous astrologer with ties to a shocking act of violence. (Mystery & detective)....

Brunetti's Venice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780802144379
RRP: $21.95

Offers more than a dozen walks through the streets of Venice with Donna Leon's character Commissario Guido Brunetti, and offers excerpts from the novels and discussions of their major themes and characters....

Drawing Conclusions
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410439307
RRP: $59.95

With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious death of a Venetian widow....

Suffer the Little Children
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780871139603
RRP: $31.95

A brutal attack on a pediatrician by a Carabiniere captain and two privates, who also take away the doctor's eighteen-month-old son, draws Commissario Guido Brunetti into a dangerous case involving a ring of baby traffickers....

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: A Sea Of Troubles
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434009848

A Commissario Brunetti Novel. The murder of two of the 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 together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, Brunetti find...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: A Venetian Reckoning
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330344166

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 secret lives of the once great and good for the answer. For in a seedy Venetian bar lies the clue to an ...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Acqua Alta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330346269

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 appointment with Dottor or Semenzato.' Then, with storm clouds gathering fast over the city, a ...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Anonymous Venetian
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330344128

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hope 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 completely unrecognizable. Brunettti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence. Then he recieves a telephone call from a contact who promises some tant...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Death At La Fenice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330337724

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 nothing so horrific and violent as that of world famous conductor, Maestro Helmet Wellauer - poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. For Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, the murder means an unwelcome step behind the lights into the bi...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Death In A Strange Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330337717

Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the robbery motive seems altogether too convenient. Then something very incriminating is discovered in the man's flat, something which points to the existence of a high leve...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Doctored Evidence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434010677

The stunning new Commissario Brunetti mystery. When the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, it is soon clear to the police that the prime suspect is her Rumanian maid, who has disappeared and is heading for Rumania. When the woman is approached by the border police as her train is leaving Italy, she makes a run for it and is killed as she crosses th...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Fatal Remedies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434008001

For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of ...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Friends In High Places
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780434004218

When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work, clearly scared, and is then found dead after a f...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Friends In High Places
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434008919

When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat concerning the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction like any other Venetian, even a cop, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings him at work, clearly scared by some information he...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Uniform Justice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434008056

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teache...

A Commissario Brunetti Novel: Wilful Behaviour
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434007851

In Donna Leon's most powerful novel yet, the murder of a young woman draws Commissario Brunetti into buried secrets dating back to WWII . . . When one of his wife 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, beyond being ...

A Noble Radiance (Special Edition)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099515036

In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave. Wild animals have done their grisly work and the human corpse is badly decomposed. Then a valuable signet ring is found close by, providing the first...

About Face
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802118967

At the request of a carabiniere investigator, Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into illegal garbage hauling that has resulted in a murder, while Brunetti's father-in-law asks him to investigate a potential business partner with a mysterious wife....

About Face
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410417152

Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon has brought us Venice in all its aspects. Now Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals, the issue is significant. For Brunetti, it becomes so when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into ...

Acqua Alta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142004968

Venice detective Guido Brunetti swings into action when the curator of Venice's most prestigious museum turns up dead, bludgeoned by a priceless artifact, and American archaeologist Brett Lynch, a close friend, narrowly escapes the killer....

Blood From A Stone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434013098

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomunitario, the dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goo...

Death In A Strange Country
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143034827

Aggressively investigating an American's murder in tranquil Venice despite his superior's order to keep things clean and quiet, Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic waste cover-up with political ties. Reprint....

Doctored Evidence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143035633

When a Romanian housekeeper, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of her miserly spinster employer, found dead in her Venice apartment, dies while fleeing arrest, the police close the books on the crime, until a witness provides new information to Commissario Guido Brunetti, who goes behind the backs of his superiors to investigate. Reprint....

Friends in High Places
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143114147

Visited by a young bureaucrat concerned about the lack of official approval to build his appartment block years before, Venetian cop Commissario Brunetti launches an investigation when the man is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold, drawing the detective into a dangerous underworld of drug abuse and loan-sharking. Original....

Suffer The Little Children
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434016266

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men - a Carabinieri captain and two privates from out of town - have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteen-month old son. What can have motivated such a v...

Through A Glass Darkly
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780434015399

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter...