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Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli-then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name and saved the life of her female American lover in Acqua Alta, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lea...

Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate the death of a young cadet. The boy has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is th...

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.

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 is taking great pains to prov...

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Donna Leon's wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politics, family life, and history of Venice, one of the world's most treasured cities and Leon's home for over thirty years. Leon's books open the doors to a private Venice, beyond the reach of the millions of international travelers who delight in the...

Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly, beauty and the beast march hand in hand, and the result is rich entertainment." -The Sunday Times (London) In Donna Leon's ninth novel featuring her celebrated protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a typically Venetian problem: red tape over renovations. Visited by a young bureaucrat, B...

In the twenty-fifth novel in Donna Leon's celebrated and bestselling series, Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a tragedy that befell a girl fifteen years earlier. In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking murders to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds h...

Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . [Her] ability to capture the city's social scene and internal politics is first-rate, as always, but this installment carries extra gravity and welcome plot twists that make it one of the series' better efforts." -Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun Donna Leon's charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries are widely acclaimed national and international best sellers, r...

On a cold Venetian night just before Christmas, an African street vendor is killed in a scuffle. Commissario Brunetti is warned by his superior to resist involvement in the case. How far will he penetrate the murky subculture of the Venetian underworld? Unabridged. 7 CDs.

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Sinopsis: Un cadete de una academia militar de élite aparece ahorcado, y el comisario Brunetti cree que ha sido asesinado. Cuando conoce la identidad del padre del fallecido (un ex miembro del Parlamento italiano que dimitió de su cargo de forma tan repentina como polémica) se plantea qué relación existe entre el férreo código de honor de la academia y las más altas instancias del ejército y la política.

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As Venice braces for a winter storm, the Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of a reigning diva. Then, as flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered. Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet.

Kidnapping fears, requests for Brunetti's help, and a murder are all part of the action in this sensual and sensuous mystery about love and regret.

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 sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti ...

Sinopsis: En Pellestrina dos pescadores de almejas, un padre y un hijo, han sido asesinados. Por la dificultad de entenderse en un dialecto diferente y la desconfianza que la cofradía de almejeros abriga contra la policía, el comisario Brunetti accede a que la enigmática signorina Elettra averigüe lo que esconde la impenetrable comunidad.

Líbranos del bien, el decimosexto caso protagonizado por el comisario Brunetti, el más negro y el primero sin crimen, urde dos tramas paralelas en torno al tráfico ilegal de menores para la adopción y a un dilema médico. Con el ingenio y la lucidez habitual en ella, Donna Leon demuestra que el camino del Infierno puede estar sembrado de buenas intenciones.