Donna Leon

There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor who died painfully from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice. But as the investigation unfolds, a chilling picture slowly begins to take shape—a detailed portrait of revenge painted with vivid strokes of hatred and shocking depravity. And the dilemma for Guido Brunetti will not be finding a murder suspect, but rather narrowing the choices down to one. . . .

A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Death at La Fenice

Death in a strange country

Dressed for Death (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Death and Judgment (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Doctored evidence

A Refiners Fire

Commissario Brunettis neunundzwanzigster Fall

Geheime Quellen

So Shall You Reap

Auf Treu und Glauben

Kuolema väärissä vaatteissa

Ajasta ikuisuuteen

Commissario Brunettis einunddreißigster Fall

Milde Gaben

The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)

Death in a Strange Country

On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti--an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city’s waters--released from prison. But on the steps of the police headquarters, they come face-to-face with Ribetti’s cantankerous father-in-law, who has been overheard making threats against Ribetti. And when the body of a night watchman is at the father-in-law’s glass factory next to an annotated copy of Dante’s Inferno, Brunetti must find out if there is a connection between this and whoever is ruining the waters of the lagoon.

Through a Glass, Darkly

When a truck crashes on one of the treacherous hair-pin bends in the Italian Dolomites, even Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is appalled when he learns of its terrible cargo.

A Venetian Reckoning

Eine Ermittlung gegen Brunetti? Unmöglich. Zwar geht es nur um seine Eigentumswohnung und die Baubewilligung, doch Brunetti muß das Schlimmste befürchten. Als der zuständige Beamte wenig später von einem Baugerüst stürzt, weiß Brunetti mit Sicherheit, daß es in diesem Fall keineswegs nur um seine eigene Wohnung geht. Seine Ermittlungen führen Brunetti in die venezianische Drogenszene, zu Wucher und Korruption. Nur Feine Freunde können da noch helfen.

Commissario Brunettis neunter Fall

Feine Freunde

Commissario Brunetti is called in to investigate when a young army cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide. However, he is met by a wall of silence, as the military protects its own and civilians are unwilling to talk.

Uniform Justice

Trace Elements

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 seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to havebe about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.

Willful Behavior

Donna Leon

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