Donna Leon Boeken

Enkele dagen nadat een Amerikaanse archeologe in Venetie is bedreigd en mishandeld, wordt de museumdirecteur met wij zij een afspraak zou hebben, dood gevonden. Politieman Guido Brunetti, bekend uit eerdere misdaadromans van Donna Leon, probeert de zaken op te lossen

In Quietly In Their Sleep, a nun, Suorimmacolata, leaves her order and the nursing home it runs when she begins to suspect that some of the patients, those who have left their money to the home, are discreetly being murdered. Turning for help to Guido Brunetti, the suave, subtle and worldly-wise comissario of police, she unwittingly leads him into an investigation of both the closed world of the powerful, secretive church organization known as Opus Dei and the very public scandal caused by a local parish priest.

From the acclaimed author of The Waters of Eternal Youth , Commissario Guido Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating eleventh case. Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior , Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious , Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it-until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews-secrets few in Italy want revealed.

Detective Guido Brunetti is submerged in the seedy Venetian underworld as he tries to crack a prostitution ring run by wealthy and powerful citizens. From the author of Dressed for Death. National ad/promo.

In een Venetiaans appartement wordt het lijk van een rijke oudere vrouw aangetroffen. Haar Roemeense huishoudster, de belangrijkste verdachte, is verdwenen. Als ze kort daarop wordt aangehouden terwijl ze de grens probeert over te steken slaat ze op de vlucht en komt onder een aankomende trein. De vrouw blijkt een aanzienlijk som geld bij zich te hebben en haar papieren zijn duidelijk vervalst. Dossier gesloten. Maar als de buurman van de weduwe terugkomt van een zakenreis, blijkt dat de huishoudster het nooit gedaan kan hebben. Ze had domweg niet genoeg tijd om de moord te plegen en vervolgens haar trein te halen. Bovendien blijkt het geld helemaal niet gestolen te zijn. Commissaris Guido Brunetti besluit de zaak op eigen houtje te onderzoeken. En wanneer hij meer te weten komt over de familie van het slachtoffer wordt duidelijk dat de moord niet gemotiveerd was door hebzucht, maar eerder door passie en lust. Het zou echter ook kunnen dat Brunetti zijn onderzoek op de verkeerde doodzonde richt.

Onrustig tij is de tiende misdaadroman met commissaris Guido Brunetti in de hoofdrol. Deze keer speelt het verhaal zich niet alleen in Venetie af, maar ook op het nabijgelegen eiland Pellestrina, in de Venetiaanse lagune. Over de mannen van Pellestrina doen vele verhalen de ronde. Ze staan bekend als ruw vissersvolk dat leeft van de karige opbrengsten van de zee. De moord op twee van hen brengt commissaris Guido Brunetti midden in de kleine gemeenschap van het eiland, waar loyaliteit en vriendschap hoog in het vaandel staan en een buitenstaander met argusogen wordt bekeken. De secretaresse van de Questore, Signorina Elettra, heeft familie op het eiland wonen. Zij is bereid onderzoek te doen, wellicht dat zij antwoorden kan krijgen die de eilandbewoners nooit aan een buitenstaander zullen geven. Brunetti is bezorgd om haar veiligheid, maar voelt ook de drang om deze misdaad op te lossen. Bovendien merkt hij dat zijn gevoelens voor Elettra meer dan alleen zakelijk zijn. Onrustig tij is opnieuw een bewijs van het meesterschap van Donna Leon. En Guido Brunetti is in deze misdaadroman wijzer en menselijker dan ooit.

Venetië in het vroege ochtendlicht biedt een onvergetelijk schouwspel van grote schoonheid. Maar de vroege ochtend dat commissario Brunetti wordt opgeroepen bij het dode lichaam van een jonge man in het canale, ziet er al snel heel anders uit. Alle aanwijzingen doen vermoeden dat het om een gewelddadige beroving gaat. Wanneer Brunettie in het appartement van het slachtoffer vervolgens enkele belastende zaken worden gevonden die wijzen op een complot van hogerhand, raakt hij ervan overtuigd dat iemand er veel belang bij heeft dat de echte daders van deze moord nooit worden gevonden.

Blood from a Stone brings Donna Leon's celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death-fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man is one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Like everybody involved, Commissario Brunetti wonders why anyone would kill an illegal immigrant. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of "not worth dealing with," how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering an unexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.

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, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca . Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing room, she finds bouquets of yellow roses—too many roses. Every surface of the room is covered with them. An anonymous fan has been showering Flavia with these beautiful gifts in London, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, and now, Venice, but she no longer feels flattered. A few nights later, invited by Brunetti to dine at his in-laws’ palazzo, Flavia confesses her alarm at these excessive displays of adoration. And when a talented young Venetian singer who has caught Flavia’s attention is savagely attacked, Brunetti begins to think that Flavia’s fears are justified in ways neither of them imagined. He must enter in the psyche of an obsessive fan before Flavia, or anyone else, comes to harm.

Guido Brunetti en zijn compagnon Vianello zijn onderweg naar het mysterieuze eiland Murano, de thuisbasis van de wereldberoemde glasfabrieken. Vianello’s vriend Marco is gearresteerd tijdens een milieudemonstratie. Marco wordt in vrijheid gesteld, tot groot ongenoegen van zijn twistzieke schoonvader, Giovanni de Cal, de eigenaar van een glasfabriek in Murano. De oude man, een serieuze milieuactivisthater, is furieus en doet bedreigende uitspraken. Brunetti vindt De Cals reactie eigenaardig en gaat op onderzoek uit. Waarom heeft de oude baas zo’n hekel aan zijn schoonzoon? Zou hij in staat zijn om de daad bij het woord te voegen? Wie heeft het belastende geheim van de glasblazerij ontmanteld en wie wordt er dood aangetroffen voor de ovens, die dag en nacht branden? Het slachtoffer blijkt aantekeningen achter te hebben gelaten in Dantes Inferno. Zouden ze een aanwijzing kunnen vormen wie de dader is?

De Venetiaanse commissaris van politie Guido Brunetti krijgt van een collega van de militaire politie het verzoek om te helpen bij een onderzoek naar illegale afvaltransporten en de moord op een transporteur.

In "Dood van een Maestro" wordt tijdens de pauze van de opera La Traviata de beroemde dirigent Helmut Wellauer dood aangetroffen. Hij blijkt te zijn vergiftigd. De eigenzinnige maestro had vele vijanden, maar zou één van hen ook een moord op zijn geweten kunnen hebben? Commissario Guido Brunetti duikt in Wellauers verleden en doet macabere ontdekkingen over zowel het slachtoffer als de dader.Studente Claudia Leonardo benadert commissario Brunetti in "Bedrieglijke zaken" met een bijzondere vraag: ze wil weten of haar grootvader postuum kan worden vijgespriken van een misdaad waarvoor hij in het verleden is veroordeeld. De zaak heeft voor Brunettti geen prioriteit, maar dat verandert onmiddellijk wanneer het meisje dood wordt gevonden.

Een vriendendienst verandert in een officiële politiezaak en commissario Brunetti ontdekt corruptie in een respectabele Italiaanse instelling.

Donna Leon’s charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti series continues with Suffer the Little Children. When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has left the doctor mute? Who would have authorized such an alarming operation? At the same time, Brunetti’s colleague Inspector Vianello discovers a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. But it appears as if one of the pharmacists is after more than money. Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and fascinating as ever, set in a beautifully-realized Venice, a glorious city seething with small-town vice.

Commissaris Brunetti en zijn collega Claudia Griffoni onderzoeken de ware toedracht van een motorongeluk van een man die bij een waterzuiveringsbedrijf in Venetië werkte.

Commissario Brunetti krijgt bezoek van een jonge ambtenaar die onderzoekt of hij de juiste bouwvergunningen heeft voor zijn appartement. Brunetti probeert het aanvankelijk op een typisch Venetiaanse manier op te lossen: hij kijkt wie in zijn kenniskring bij de overheid werkt en dit probleem kan laten verdwijnen. Maar wanneer de ambtenaar hem met bevende stem belt en vervolgens een dodelijke val van een steiger maakt, weet Brunetti dat het probleem groter is dan alleen zijn bouwvergunningen...

Commissaris Brunetti wordt geconfronteerd met de dood van een jongeman die op een particuliere militaire academie zat.

Commissaris Brunetti krijgt bezoek van een jonge vrouw met een vreemde vraag; kort daarna wordt zij vermoord aangetroffen.

Drie verhalen met de Venetiaanse politiecommissaris Brunetti in de hoofdrol.

Tijdens het onderzoek naar de dood van een ambtenaar voor bouwzaken komt een politieman uit Venetië in aanraking met corruptie, geldschieters en drugshandelaren.

This engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series showcases her delightful humor and irony. In her memoir, she previously offered a colorful tour of her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, and her love of Venice and opera, but did not delve into her writing life. In this work, she reveals her admiration for great crime novelists like Ruth Rendell and Ross Macdonald, examining their storytelling techniques while dissecting her favorite books. She expresses her love for Dickens' *Great Expectations* and appreciates Sir Walter Scott's generosity of spirit. The author chronicles her extensive research efforts to authentically portray places and characters through Guido Brunetti and his colleagues, including interviewing a diamond dealer in Venice about blood diamonds and connecting with a courageous sex worker to accurately depict women's trafficking in Italy. Venice remains central in her memories, from the irritation of a noisy neighbor to the origins of Carnevale. Her teaching career yields memorable tales, such as helping a young Black boy in Newark and instructing Iranian pilots just before the 1979 Revolution. Throughout, she proves to be as compelling a storyteller about her own life as she is in chronicling Brunetti's adventures. Readers will find themselves captivated by her world.

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti’s mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessa’s teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal. She was rescued from the canal at the last moment, but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage and her life was never the same again. Once a passionate horse rider, Manuela, now aged thirty, cannot remember the accident, or her beloved horse, and lives trapped in an eternal youth. The Contessa, unconvinced that this was an accident, implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life. Out of a mixture of curiosity, pity and a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother, Brunetti reopens the case. But once he starts to investigate, Brunetti finds a murky past and a dark story at its heart. The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Venetian life, from historical preservation, to housing, to new waves of African migrants, all circling the haunting story of a woman trapped in a perpetual childhood.

A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment - and, at the same time, an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. But as Inspector Montalbano discovers, these two seemingly unrelated cases lead him down a path more evil and far-reaching than he has been down before.

In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to start, disturbs a macabre grave, and Commissario Brunetti is called in.

Donna Leon bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the never-ending influx of tourists and the suffocating corruption. Through it all, Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti, a good man who loves his family and his city, has been an enduring figure, but in Earthly Remains , Brunetti’s endurance is tested more than ever before. During an interrogation, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he quickly comes to regret, and in the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti’s wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History . The recuperative stay goes according to plan until David Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his leave of absence and understand what happened to the man who had become his friend.

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.

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 Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. 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 behaviour 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?

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'.

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind. It appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra to find out what she can while he's away. When news reaches Brunetti that the usher from the Courthouse has been viciously murdered, he returns to investigate. But why would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to do with the Courthouse discrepancies?

Commissario Brunetti runs up against a wall of silence when he sets out to investigate the apparent suicide of a young man, the son of a prominent doctor, found hanged in Venice's elite military academy.

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 ...

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.

In the 28th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Brunetti's father-in-law, the Count Falier, urges Brunetti to investigate and intervene in the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would become heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. Not long after Gonzalo unexpectedly passes away, one of Gonzalo's oldest friends, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti is drawn reluctantly into the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly follows the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.[Bokinfo]

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.

When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all. This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption. A Refiner's Fireis Donna Leon at her very best- an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly interrogates the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.

Celebrated by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers, Donna Leon brings Venice to life in the twenty-second Brunetti novel of this bestselling series, where our detective must uncover the mystery. When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor - a humiliation Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid - Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Brunetti's dry cleaners has been found dead - an 'accidental' overdose of his mother's sleeping pills - and Paola is distraught by the news. To the neighbourhood he was just the 'boy' who helped out, but nobody knew much about him - not even his name. That a soul could have lived such a joyless life is too much for Paola to bear, and she asks Guido if he can find out what happened. It is a surprise to Brunetti just how little was known about this man-child - there are no official records to show he even existed. The man's mother is angry and contradictory when questioned about his death, and Brunetti senses that there much more to the story than she is willing to tell. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, perhaps Brunetti can get to the truth and find some measure of solace.

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 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 is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. From the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

A suspicious accident draws Brunetti into Venice's underworld - with unintended, disturbing consequences... A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge, and Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy's behaviour.

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 novel

During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him – not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he’d been secretly visiting. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend. In Earthly Remains, Donna Leon shows Venice through an insider’s eyes. From family meals and vaporetti rides to the never-ending influx of tourists and suffocating political corruption, the details and rhythms of everyday Venetian life are at the core of this thrilling novel, and of the terrible crime at its heart.

In Death at La Fenice , Donna Leon’s first novel in the beloved Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli, who became the prime suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca . As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers. But when one fan inundates her with bouquets of yellow roses – on stage, in her dressing room and even inside her locked apartment – it becomes clear that Flavia has an anonymous stalker on her hands. Distraught and horrified, she turns to an old friend for help. In steps Commissario Brunetti. Familiar with Flavia’s melodramatic temperament, he is at first unperturbed by her story, only realising the situation is more threatening when another young opera singer is attacked. Desperate to keep Flavia out of danger, Brunetti is determined to find the culprit before more harm is done.

The multiple award-winning Leon has lost none of her talent for weaving intrigue, and the atmosphere of Venice is as beguiling as ever. Living North

When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end. It doesn't take long for Brunetti to realise why he remembers the dead man - he saw him at a demonstration a couple of years ago, where farmers were protesting about European milk quotas. But what was his involvement with the protest, and could it have anything to do with his murder? Having nothing to go on but the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and a disease that had left his body strangely deformed, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to try and discover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse at Preganziol, on the mainland. It is there that Brunetti discovers the dead man's connection with the slaughterhouse, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it. With a gripping case set before a harrowing exploration of the meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a dark and compelling addition to the Brunetti series.

In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humour, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned.

When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene.

Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in the composer's two chests that have not been opened for centuries. As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque era. When her research takes her in unexpected directions, she begins to wonder what dark secrets these chests hold and just whom can she trust?

›Kurioses aus Venedig‹ – das erzählt Donna Leon. Untermalt werden die besonderen Begebenheiten mit Musik auf historischen Instrumenten: Virtuoses von Antonio Vivaldi, extra aufgenommen für dieses Buch von ›Il Complesso Barocco‹.

Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura , Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised more consequentially by the appearance of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and hopeful Brunetti can somehow intervene. When Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious and with a serious brain injury at the foot of a Venice bridge at midnight, Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy's behavior. But the truth, as Brunetti has experienced so often, is rarely straightforward. An examination of Gasparini's home office reveals a number of strange coupons in his elderly aunt's name from a local drugstore, which over time reveal a long-running scam. As the 27th novel unfolds in Donna Leon's exquisite chronicle of Venetian life in all its blissful and sordid aspects, Brunetti is ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness and craftiness of Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary and gate-keeper, and reminded of the ever-lasting virtues of his own family. His intellectual pursuits lead him to read Sophocles' play Antigone , so revealing of the unintended consequences that can erupt from bad decisions--and tempt him to consider at least personal forgiveness for a crime from the heart gone bad.

Quan el commissario Brunetti coneix durant un sopar Franca Marinello, la dona d'un pròsper empresari venecià, queda completament fascinat per la seva passió per Virgili i Ciceró, i una mica sorprès per la seva aparença: una dona rossa i superficial que vesteix roba cara i exhibeix un vistós lífting facial.Pocs dies després, el responsable local dels carabinieri fa una visita a Brunetti. Vol obtenir informació sobre la mort del propietari d'una companyia de camions que, pel que sembla, pot estar relacionada amb el transport il·legal de residus i amb l'ecomàfia. Les descobertes del commissario demostren que l'enlluernadora Franca Marinello ha mantingut contactes amb el principal sospitós, un home sinistre amb un passat. Però la veritat sempre té un costat obscur.La nova novel·la de Donna Leon és un treball subtil, apassionant i d'una absoluta actualitat. I com sempre, ens transporta als carrers, els sons, les olors d'una Venècia inundada de vida."El commissario Brunetti ha captivat milions de lectors arreu del món". Avui "Brunetti crea addicció". News

Schon in ihren Brunetti-Romanen interessiert sich Donna Leon nicht nur fur kriminelle Mifi-stiinde, sondern auch fur die Gemisse des Le-bens. Die hier versammelten Geschichten han-deln nicht nur von guten Speisen, sondern auch von ihrer Leidenschaft fur Bucher und die Oper und von der Erholung in den Bergen. Und als Amerikanerin in Venedig schreibt Donna Leon nicht blofi liber Bella Italia, sondern auch iiber die Mafia und Machos. Von Venedig blickt sie hiniiber nach Amerika, dem Iran oder Saudi-Arabien.In ihrer direkten Art nimmt Donna Leon Un-vermutetes aufs Warum ist es nicht er-strebenswert, aufierordentlicher amerikanischer Konsul zu werden? Und wie findet man fur die beste Freundin in New York einen Mann? Woriiber reden Crime Ladies wie Barbara Vine und Donna Leon, wenn sie gemeinsam dinie-ren? Und warum weint man beim Lesen von Romanen leichter als in der Wirklichkeit? Wie schreibt man einen Kriminalroman? Und was tun Maulwiirfe eigentlich sonntags morgens um halb neun?Vielseitig, wie sie ist, stellt sich Donna Leon unerschrocken manche Frage - und bleibt da-bei sich selber treu. Ihr Blick ist ebenso unbe-stechlich wie anteilnehmend, und eines fehlt der Humor.

Wir befinden uns in der Wohnung von Donna Leon. Nicht nur vom Fenster aus, auch durch die Wände hindurch nimmt sie ihre Nachbarn wahr; meistens jedoch tauscht sie sich direkt mit ihnen aus. Dabei wird sie nicht nur in die Geheimnisse der italienischen Küche und in das Familienleben eingeweiht, sondern sie wird auch Zeugin vieler italienischer Mißstände, gegen die sie ankämpft, als wäre sie Commissario Brunetti in Person.

Motive müssen nicht so nobel sein wie das Geblüt, aus dem man stammt, und nicht überall geht es so idyllisch zu wie bei Familie Brunetti: Als auf dem Grundstück eines pensionierten deutschen Arztes am Fuß der Dolomiten die Leiche eines jungen Mannes gefunden wird, führt die Spur zum venezianischen Adelsgeschlecht der Lorenzonis und weiter hinter die Kulissen der Einflußreichen und Mächtigen.

Schon in ihren Brunetti-Romanen interessiert sich Donna Leon nicht nur für kriminelle Mißstände, sondern auch für die Genüsse des Lebens. In den hier versammelten Geschichten läßt uns die Amerikanerin in Venedig teilhaben an ihrem Blick hinter die Kulissen der an Genüssen so reichen Lagunenstadt.

Wie kamen die italienischen Männer zu ihrem Ruf als Latin Lover? Was ist das Sinnliche an der klassischen Musik? Und wie findet man für die beste Freundin in New York einen Mann? In ihren Geschichten über Männer und Frauen geht Donna Leon Vorurteile und Idealbilder an, in der ihr eigenen direkten Art, amüsant, engagiert und ohne die Angst, als politically uncorrect zu gelten.

Le commissaire Brunetti, après l'enterrement de sa mère, est sollicité par un missionnaire pour enquêter sur une secte à Venise. Son hésitation est interrompue par la découverte du corps d'une fillette dans un canal.

Erstaunliches und Erhieterndes über das berühmteste Boot der Welt, ergänzt durch die Bilder großer italienischer Meister und mit eienr CD Venezianischer Gondellieder gespielt vom ensemble "Il Pomo d'Oro"

Nichts gegen Netflix unter der Kuscheldecke – aber wirklich romantisch wird’s, wenn Verliebte einander im Bett Geschichten vorlesen. In diesem Buch sind Geschichten von zehn Frauen und zehn Männern versammelt. Mal süss und mal heiss, mal traurig oder lustig. Und nicht zu lang und nicht zu kurz. Der oder die Liebste soll ja nicht gleich einschlafen… Dieser bezaubernde Band enthält Klassiker der Weltliteratur von der Bibel über Gustave Flaubert bis zu Kurt Tucholsky, Peter Bichsel, Donna Leon und Doris Lessing, aber auch junge Autorinnen wie Rebekka Salm, Tasha Rumley und Fine Degen. Die Geschichten wurden von Alex Capus und vom Verleger Thomas Knapp gemeinsam ausgewählt. «Gutenachtgeschichten für Verliebte» ist ein wunderbares Geschenkbändchen für viele Gelegenheiten. In Leinen gebunden zudem auch ein haptischer Genuss.

Etterforskeren Guido Brunetti blir tilkalt når en ung militærkadett blir funnet død ved et antatt selvmord. Han blir møtt med en mur av stillhet, militæret beskytter sine egne og de sivile vil ikke snakke. Donna Leon har hatt stor suksess med bøkene om sympatiske, tørrvittige og vinglade italienske etterforskeren Brunetti. Handlingen i bøkene er lagt til Venezia og området rundt. Kriminalromanen ble utgitt på engelsk i 2003.

Commissario Brunetti er Venezias berømte mordetterforsker med store sanselige gleder. Han er gift med universitetslektoren Paola. Når studenten Claudia blir funnet knivstukket til døde, er hun ikke lenger bare Paolas student, men også Brunettis sak. Donna Leon har stor suksess med sine bøker om den italienske etterforskeren Brunetti.

Scherben auf der Piazza San Marco. Zwei Kinderbanden sind aneinandergeraten, mitten in der Nacht. Während Commissario Griffoni mit weiblichem Gespür herauszubekommen versucht, wie ein Teenager in den Sog eines Flashmobs geraten konnte, nutzt Brunetti seine eigenen Connections. Ja sogar Vice-Questore Patta ist zu allem bereit, um sich und seine Leute vor Vorkommnissen zu schützen, die zumal in einer Touristenstadt wie Venedig nicht willkommen sind.

Die Jubiläums-Edition: 12 erfolgreiche Diogenes Bücher in einmaliger Ausstattung zum einmaligen Preis zum Start des Jubiläums am 1. Juni 2002. Alfred Andersch: Der Vater eines Mörders. Paulo Coelho: Der Dämon und Fräulein Prym. Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Labyrinth / Turmbau. Stoffe I-IX. Patricia Highsmith: Der süße Wahn. John Irving: Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag. Donna Leon: Venezianisches Finale Ingrid Noll: Der Hahn ist tot. Bernhard Schlink: Der Vorleser Georges Simenon: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah. Patrick Süskind: Das Parfum. Andrzej Szczypiorski: Die schöne Frau Seidenman. Urs Widmer: Der Geliebte der Mutter.