Deze detectivereeks volgt commissaris Guido Brunetti terwijl hij misdaden in Venetië onderzoekt. De verhalen richten zich op zijn persoonlijke en professionele leven, onthullend corruptie en sociale problemen binnen de Italiaanse samenleving. De serie staat bekend om zijn realistische weergave van onderzoeken en de sfeer van de stad, die bijna een andere protagonist in het verhaal wordt. Elke aflevering brengt nieuwe zaken en morele dilemma's die Brunetti dwingen om waarden en rechtvaardigheid opnieuw te evalueren.
Who put the cyanide in the Maestro's drink? Guido Brunetti, Venice's genius detective, finds more suspects than clues as a picture of depravity and revenge emerges from his investigation, leaving him torn as to what the law can do, and what needs to be done.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
Commissario Brunetti is called in to investigate when a young army cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide. However, he is met by a wall of silence, as the military protects its own and civilians are unwilling to talk.
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.
Commissaris Guido Brunetti uit Venetië onderzoekt de moord op een Afrikaanse straatverkoper.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
"Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992 s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the world. For her millions of fans, Leon s novels have opened a window into the private Venice of her citizens, a world of incomparable beauty, family intimacy, shocking crime, and insidious corruption. This internationally acclaimed, bestselling series is widely considered one of the best ever written, and William Heinemann is thrilled to be publishing the twenty-second installment, The Golden Egg, in April 2013. 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 for some reason Paola is distraught by the news. To the
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher has stolen them, but for Brunetti something doesn't quite add up. Taking on the case, the Commissario begins to seek information about some of the library's regulars, such as the ex-priest Franchini, a passionate reader of ancient Christian literature, and Contessa Morosini-Albani, the library's chief donor, and comes to the conclusion that the thief could not have acted alone. However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn and soon Brunetti finds himself submerged in the dark secrets of the black market of antiquarian books. Alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra, he delves into the pages of Franchini's past and into the mind of a book thief in order to uncover the terrible truth.
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.
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.
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.
When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. 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. But the truth is not straightforward. Following various contradictory leads, Brunetti navigates his way through a world of mysterious informants, underground deals and secret longstanding scam networks, all the while growing ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario, Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness of Signorina Elettra, Vice-Questore Patta's secretary and gate-keeper. With Gasparini's condition showing no signs of improvement, and his investigations leading nowhere, Brunetti is steadied by the embrace of his own family and by his passion for the classics. He turns to Sophocles's Antigone in an attempt to understand the true purpose of justice, and, in its light, he is forced to consider the terrible consequences to which the actions of a tender heart can lead
As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count's best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would become the sole heir to Gonzalo's substantial fortune, something which Gonzalo's friends, including the Count, find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. Not long after Brunetti meets with Gonzalo, the elderly man unexpectedly passes away from natural causes. Gonzalo's death goes unquestioned, and a few of his oldest friends gather in Venice to plan the memorial service. But when berta, a striking woman and Gonzalo's best friend, is strangled in her hotel room, Brunetti is drawn into long-buried secrets from Gonzalo's past. What did Berta know ? And who would go to such lengths to ensure it would remain hidden ? Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable characters.
Commissaris Brunetti en zijn collega Claudia Griffoni onderzoeken de ware toedracht van een motorongeluk van een man die bij een waterzuiveringsbedrijf in Venetië werkte.
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?
Een vriendendienst verandert in een officiële politiezaak en commissario Brunetti ontdekt corruptie in een respectabele Italiaanse instelling.
Die Calli, Campi und Caffès, die Brunetti frequentiert, zu Touren verbunden: Zwölf von Toni Sepeda entwickelte und erprobte Spaziergänge und ein Ausflug in die Lagune erschließen die Welt des Commissario. Und der kennt Venedig wie kein anderer: Reich und Arm, heute und früher, bei Tag und bei Nacht.
Rezepte von Roberta Pianaro und kulinarische Geschichten von Donna Leon
Köstliches mit und ohne Kalorien: 91 Rezepte, wie sie Paola in den Brunetti-Romanen kocht, aufgezeichnet von Donna Leons Freundin und Lieblingsköchin Roberta Pianaro. Als kalorienfreier Zwischengang sechs kulinarische Geschichten von Donna Leon sowie wunderschöne Vignetten von Tatjana Hauptmann.
Warum lieben Leser allerorten Brunetti wie einen Freund, mit dem man durch dick und dünn gegangen ist? Wohl weil er ebenso Philosoph ist wie Polizist. Unermüdlich versucht er seine Mitmenschen zu verstehen. Als Italiener, Genießer und Familienmensch glaubt er an das gute Leben, trotz aller Widernisse und Schurken um uns her. Dieses Buch versammelt die besten Gedanken des bekanntesten, klügsten und sympathischsten Commissario: ein abc der Lebenskunst.
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 garden 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 Signorina 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.
