Book 1

Death At La Fenice

by Donna Leon

Published 26 June 1992
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 - poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of...Read more

Book 2

Death in a Strange Country

by Donna Leon

Published 1 June 1993
Early one morning Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti, robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something...Read more

Book 3

Dressed for Death

by Donna Leon

Published 1 June 1994
Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera--a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. The victim appears to be...Read more

Book 4

Death and Judgment

by Donna Leon

Published 1 July 1996
In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon's best selling 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 for Venice....Read more

Book 5

Acqua Alta

by Donna Leon

Published 26 April 1996
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man's body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett in the Capra family palazzo.

Book 6

Quietly in Their Sleep

by Donna Leon

Published 1 September 1997
In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters...Read more

Book 7

A Noble Radiance

by Donna Leon

Published 5 March 1998
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...Read more

Book 8

Fatal Remedies

by Donna Leon

Published 4 February 1999
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandelism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, but the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other that Paola Brunetti, his wife. As Paola's...Read more

Book 9

Friends in High Places

by Donna Leon

Published 6 April 2000
When Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department....Read more

Book 10

A Sea of Troubles

by Donna Leon

Published 29 March 2001
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island's close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the Vice-Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra...Read more

Book 11

Willful Behavior

by Donna Leon

Published 28 March 2002
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...Read more

Book 12

Uniform Justice

by Donna Leon

Published 6 March 2003
Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age...Read more

Book 13

Doctored Evidence

by Donna Leon

Published 18 April 2004
When the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, it is soon clear to the police that the prime suspect is her Rumanian maid, who has disappeared and is heading for Rumania. When the woman is approached by the border police as...Read more

Book 14

Blood from a Stone

by Donna Leon

Published 3 March 2005
"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 the fake...

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Book 15

Through a Glass, Darkly

by Donna Leon

Published 6 April 2006
A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's...Read more

Book 16

Suffer the Little Children

by Donna Leon

Published 5 April 2007
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured in a brutal attack, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away...Read more

Book 17

The Girl of His Dreams

by Donna Leon

Published 3 April 2008
When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa, calls on him with a request, Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city, and it's possible the...Read more

Book 18

About Face

by Donna Leon

Published 1 April 2009
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is...Read more

Book 19

A Question of Belief

by Donna Leon

Published 1 April 2010
Under the stifling summer sun, Venice is flooded with tourism. Commissario Guido Brunetti is planning the perfect mountain vacation where he can catch up on his reading. However, before he can go, an old friend has him look into a court corruption case. As he probes deeper, Commissario Brunetti...Read more

Book 20

Drawing Conclusions

by Donna Leon

Published 1 April 2011

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. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for...

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