Donna Leon

Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)

Donna Leon

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim’s apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.

So Shall You Reap (Commissario Brunetti, #32)

Donna Leon

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 Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man’s presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city’s far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim’s interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s. As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signora Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle—random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships—that appear to have little in common, until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.

Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)

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. . . .

The Temptation of Forgiveness (Commissario Brunetti, #27)

Donna Leon

Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

Donna Leon

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters. What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. 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. Since Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti logically suspects the cause of danger is related to the finances of a client. Yet his clients seem benign: an optician, a restaurateur, a charity established by his father-in-law. However, when his friend's daughter's place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favors--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. Exploring the wobbly line between the criminal and non-criminal, revealing previously untold elements of Brunetti's past, Give Unto Others shows that the price of reciprocity can be steep.

Trace Elements (Commissario Guido Brunetti, #29)

Donna Leon

Brunetti's Cookbook

Donna Leon

Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti, #9)

Donna Leon

A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti, #10)

Donna Leon

Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11)

Donna Leon

Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti, #12)

Donna Leon

Doctored Evidence (Commissario Brunetti, #13)

Donna Leon

Blood from a Stone (Commissario Brunetti, #14)

Donna Leon

Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti, #15)

Donna Leon

Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)

Donna Leon

The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Brunetti, #17)

Donna Leon

A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti, #19)

Donna Leon

About Face (Commissario Brunetti, #18)

Donna Leon

Drawing Conclusions (Commissario Brunetti, #20)

Donna Leon

Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, #21)

Donna Leon

The Golden Egg (Commissario Brunetti, #22)

Donna Leon

By Its Cover (Commissario Brunetti, #23)

Donna Leon

Falling in Love (Commissario Brunetti, #24)

Donna Leon

The Waters of Eternal Youth (Commissario Brunetti, #25)

Donna Leon

Earthly Remains (Commissario Brunetti, #26)

Donna Leon

Fatal Remedies (Commissario Brunetti, #8)

Donna Leon

A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti, #7)

Donna Leon

Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti, #6)

Donna Leon

Death and Judgment (Commissario Brunetti, #4)

Donna Leon

Dood van een maestro (Commissario Brunetti, #1)

Donna Leon

Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti, #5)

Donna Leon

Salto mortale

Donna Leon

Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

Donna Leon

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?," his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and one of his friends just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room--having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder--a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.

Vendetta (Brunetti, #4)

Donna Leon

Vendetta - Commissario Brunettis vierter Fall - bk1479; Diogenes Verlag; Donna Leon; pocket_book; 1998

DAS MADCHEN SEINER TRAUME

Donna Leon

Transient Desires (Commissario Brunetti, #30)

Donna Leon

* 9 hours, 46 minutes * In 'TRANSIENT DESIRES', the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, Commissario Guido Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside of his jurisdiction. 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 city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti’s curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it? As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organized. Donna Leon’s 'TRANSIENT DESIRES' is as powerful as any novel she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth. ©2021 Donna Leon (P)2021 Recorded Books

Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti, #3)

Donna Leon

My Venice and Other Essays

Donna Leon

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