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Author
Series
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 27
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume Book 1
Publisher
Harper Torch
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 18cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 13
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 28
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Language
English
Description
Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 16
Language
English
Description
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...
10) A noble radiance
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 behind the young man's disappearance and murder.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 6
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Commisario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has left her convent after five of her patients have died unexpectedly. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled onto something very real and very sinister? Something that places her own life...
12) Trace elements
Author
Series
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 29
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him, Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
15) Give unto others
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...