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....
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. Are the two tragedies connected? Commissario Guido...
The Italian detective Commissario Brunetti takes on another intriguing, but personal case in Donna Leon's Acqua Alta , an atmospheric murder mystery filled with the sights and sounds of Venice.
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...
Nichts als schöner Schein - das denken sich wohl die Leute, wenn sie »la Superliftata« in der Calle begegnen. Brunetti aber merkt, dass sich hinter den starren Zügen von Franca Marinello Geheimnisse verbergen. Nicht anders als hinter...
Tod vor dem Brennofen. Ist ein Familienzwist zwischen dem Fabrikbesitzer und seinem Schwiegersohn schuld? Oder musste der Nachtwächter der Glasmanufaktur dafür büßen, dass er ein fanatischer Umweltschützer und Leser ist? In einer...
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 Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressur...
'The thoughtful and charming [Brunetti] is on top form . . His nicely balanced world . . is cumulatively engrossing. In this domestic detail, Leon roots the power of the ordinary, moral individual.' Sunday Times
When two clam fishermen are murdered on the island of Pellestrina, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate. He has his work cut out for him - the people of Pellestrina are tight-knit, bound together by a code of loyalty and suspicious of outsiders....
One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he...
' The virtues of Leon's writing are all on display in .. Doctored Evidence .. [Leon] has a wonderful feeling for the social complexities of Venice, where corruption is as old and deep and treacherous as the canals .. Like all the best detective...
Reissues of the popular novels, published in B format for the first time to appeal to a wider audience. Leon has sold over 1 million books to date, and is the recent recipient of the CWA Silver Dagger Award, for "Friends In High Places".
When the body of a young man is pulled out of a fetid Venetia canal, all clues point to a violent mugging. But for Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incriminating is...
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...
Wie jeden Winter bedroht Hochwasser das größte Museum der Welt: Venedig. Eine Archäologin wird vor ihrer Wohnung zusammengeschlagen, ein renommierter Museumsdirektor wird ermordet. Ganz Venedig ist entsetzt. Commissario Brunetti will beide...