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“Commissario Guido Brunetti’s fourteenth case may be his best yet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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...

In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite Mountains. Meanwhile, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train bound...

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...

When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared. As the runaway maid’s train is leaving Italy for Romania, she is approached by the border police, runs away, and is killed as she crosses the tracks in...

In the seventeenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Brunetti investigates two groups—a Christian sect, and the gypsies—and tries to understand the tragic death of a young girl. When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently...

In the eighth book in the beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Brunetti's wife, Paola, takes a political stand that causes him trouble. In the eighth book in Donna Leon’s internationally bestselling series, Commissario Guido Brunetti’s career comes under threat as his professional and...

In the tenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Brunetti infiltrates a clannish island community to investigate the murder of two local fishermen. Donna Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Guido...

In the sixteenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a mysterious kidnapping leads the Venetian detective into the darkest corners of the medical establishment. “Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen...[Her] ability to capture the city’s social...

“A stunning novel, the best of this brilliant series, with a twist at the end that will leave even the most sophisticated reader gasping.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Donna Leon’s bestselling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti has won her...

Winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Friends in High Places is the ninth novel in Leon's bestselling and highly acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti series. “Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold...

On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti—an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city’s waters—released from prison. But on the steps...

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.

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.

Accompagné de son épouse Paola à la Fenice, le grand opéra de Venise, le commissaire Brunetti assiste à une représentation de la Tosca, avec la célèbre diva Flavia Petrelli qu’il n’a pas vue depuis fort longtemps. Le spectacle, grandiose, s’achève par une pluie de roses jaunes tandis que Flavia est ovationnée. Mais des centaines d’autres roses jaunes attendent aussi la soprano dans sa loge. Un admirateur secret se cache derrière ces envois excessifs depuis qu’elle a démarré sa grande tournée en Europe et Flavia commence à s’inquiéter.

En ce maussade lundi de printemps, le commissaire Guido Brunetti pensait n’avoir rien d’autre à faire que de lire des rapports, quand il reçoit soudain un appel fiévreux de la directrice d’une prestigieuse bibliothèque vénitienne. Plusieurs livres anciens et de grande valeur ont été endommagés, d’autres ont même disparu. Les employés soupçonnent un chercheur américain venu à plusieurs reprises consulter les livres, mais pour Brunetti, quelque chose ne colle pas.

En este podcast abordamos algunas cuestiones relevantes para el futuro del feminismo. ¿Cuál es la raíz de la división dentro del movimiento feminista? ¿Qué es y cómo se manifiesta el sexismo en nuestras sociedades? ¿Qué hacemos con la violencia machista? ¿Qué está pasando con el aborto y los derechos reproductivos? ¿Qué implicaciones tienen la igualdad y la diversidad como reivindicaciones políticas? Este podcast está inspirado en el curso gratuito online de la plataforma Coursera Feminismo, Género y Política dirigido por Eva Anduiza, Maria Freixanet y Margarita León e ...

Au cœur de la nuit vénitienne, une adolescente chute du pont San Boldo dans un canal. Incapable de nager, Manuela est sur le point de se noyer quand un passant la sauve. Mais elle n’en sort pas indemne, souffrant de dommages cérébraux irréversibles qui la condamnent à garder à tout jamais l’esprit d’une enfant. Quinze ans plus tard, à l’occasion d’un gala de charité, Brunetti rencontre la comtesse Lando-Continui, une riche mécène, qui s’avère être la grandmère de Manuela et qui lui demande d’enquêter sur le drame. Elle est convaincue qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un simple accident.

Donna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have often been praised for their insight into culture, politics, family life, and the history of Venice, one of the world’s most treasured cities and her home for over thirty years. My Venice and Other Essays collects over fifty of Leon’s funny, charming, and passionate essays on subjects that range from battles over garbage in the canals to troubles with rehabbing Venetian real estate.

Tandis que les feuilles d’automne commencent à tomber dans les rues de Venise, le vice-questeur Patta charge le commissaire Brunetti d'enquêter sur une infraction commise par le magasin de masques sur le campo San Barnaba appartenant à la future bru du maire. Mais voilà que sa femme, Paola, lui présente, elle aussi, une requête. L'homme, certainement handicapé mental, qui travaillait dans leur pressing, vient de mourir d'une overdose de somnifères.

В горах на границе Италии и Австрии срывается в пропасть румынский трейлер, среди обломков которого обнаруживаются трупы неизвестных женщин. На венецианском вокзале Санта-Лючия в купе междугородного поезда найден мертвым известный адвокат по международному праву. Какая может быть связь между этими двумя трагедиями? Комиссар Брунетти находит разгадку в грязном баре – центре преступной сети, простирающейся далеко за пределы Италии.