Donna Leon

The Venice commissioner, Guido Brunetti, investigates the murder of a museum director who was involved in the traffic of Chinese antiques. Suspicion falls on a wealthy collector.

Acqua Alta

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 together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When his boss's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her.

A Sea of Troubles

Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly wrong, something with far greater implications than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into the unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts, and the arrest AND release of a suspected drug dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have 'Friends in High Places'

Friends in High Places

Skandal in Venedigs Opernhaus 'La Fenice': In der Pause vor dem letzten Akt der 'Traviata' wird der deutsche Stardirigent Helmut Wellauer tot aufgefunden. In seiner Garderobe riecht es nach Bittermandel - Zyankali. Ein großer Verlust für die Musikwelt und ein heikler Fall für Commissario Guido Brunetti. Und es scheint, als ob einige Leute allen Grund gehabt hätten, den Maestro unter die Erde zu bringen.

Commissario Brunettis erster Fall : Roman

Venezianisches Finale

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.

A Noble Radiance

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"

A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Earthly Remains

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 violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer, who was poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city, is shocked at the number of enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top - but just how many have motive enough for murder? The beauty of Venice is crumbling. But evil is one thing that will never erode with age.

Death at La Fenice

Commissario Guido Brunetti is approached for a favour by Elisabetta Foscarini. Foscarini's son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he's involved with. When his friend's daughter's place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favours - that his colleagues Claudia Griffoni, Lorenzo Vianello, and Signorina Elettra Zorzi assist his private investigation, which soon enough turns official as they uncover the dark and Janus-faced nature of a venerable Italian institution.

Give Unto Others

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.

Uniform Justice

A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. 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 household, Brunetti himself is under increasing pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious death and his superiors need quick results. As his professional and personal lives clash, Brunetti's own career is under threat - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink ...

Fatal Remedies

Monika Elwenspoek

Eine Leiche schwimmt in einem stinkenden Kanal in Venedig. Und zum Himmel stinken auch die Machenschaften, die sich hinter diesem Tod verbergen: Mafia, amerikanisches Militär und geldgierige Geschäftsmänner sind gleichermaßen verwickelt. Commissario Brunetti muß sich anstrengen, um nicht selbst im Kanal zu landen. Wer Giftmüll verschwinden lassen kann, für den sind unliebsame Mitwisser kein Problem.

Commissario Brunettis zweiter Fall : Roman

Endstation Venedig

Investigating the thefts of rare book pages from a prestigious Venetian library, Commissario Guido Brunetti is stymied by numerous possible suspects and the murder of a seemingly harmless theologian. 50,000 first printing.

By its Cover

'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 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 level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.

Death in a Strange Country

Willful Behaviour

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 to determine whether or not she has stumbled into a sinister scenario that could threaten her life. Original.

Quietly in Their Sleep

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.

A Question of Belief

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, he thinks little of it, despite being intrigued by the girl's intelligence and moral conscience. But when the girl is found stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is no longer Paola's student, but instead becomes Brunetti's case. Claudia seemed to have no discernible living family, but lived with an elderly Austrian woman. Brunetti is stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps, and when she in turn is found dead, the case begins to unlock long buried secrets of collaboration during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...

Wilful Behaviour

When a lorry 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. This is Donna Leon's fourth novel to feature Guido Brunetti.

A Venetian Reckoning

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 of his friend sets in motion a murder

Unto Us a Son Is Given

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 novelWhen Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta's secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, hereads Aeschylus's classic playThe Eumenides. As she has done so often through her memorable characters and storytelling skill, Donna Leon once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences between guilt and responsibility.

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