Donna Leon
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But soon Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is someone from his own family. Meanwhile, Brunetti is under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to a suspicious accidental death. Does it all lead back to the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin/Grove Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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 provide...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the investigation.--Container
Looks are deceiving : The murder of a trucking...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
Death at La Fenice : After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti to crime fiction fans worldwide.--Container
Friends in...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2004, 2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container
Acqua alta : First a museum director and an antiquities dealer are murdered. Then...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
Language
Deutsch
Description
Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank accounts?--Container
Uniform justice. Brunetti is deeply affected...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2011, �2006, 2004
Language
Deutsch
Description
Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
A sea of troubles. When the murder of two fishermen...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012, p2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian history.--Container
Blood from a stone : Fake designer...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from the factory?--Container
Suffer the little children : When...
