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Donna Leon
Full Series List in Order
A Guido Brunetti Mystery
1 - Death at la Fenice (Jul-1992)2 - Death in a Strange Country (Jun-1993)
3 - Dressed for Death // The Anonymous Venetian (Jun-1994)
4 - Death and Judgment // A Venetian Reckoning (Jun-1995)
5 - Death in High Water // Acqua Alta (Oct-1996)
6 - The Death of Faith // Quietly in Their Sleep (Jun-1997)
7 - A Noble Radiance (Mar-1998)
8 - Fatal Remedies (Feb-1999)
9 - Friends in High Places (Apr-2000)
10 - A Sea of Troubles (Mar-2001)
11 - Wilful Behaviour (Mar-2002)
12 - Uniform Justice (Mar-2003)
13 - Doctored Evidence (Apr-2004)
14 - Blood from a Stone (Apr-2005)
15 - Through a Glass Darkly (May-2006)
16 - Suffer the Little Children (Apr-2007)
17 - The Girl of His Dreams (May-2008)
18 - About Face (Apr-2009)
19 - A Question of Belief (May-2010)
20 - Drawing Conclusions (Apr-2011)
21 - Beastly Things (Apr-2012)
22 - The Golden Egg (Apr-2013)
23 - By Its Cover (Apr-2014)
24 - Falling in Love (Apr-2015)
25 - The Waters of Eternal Youth (Mar-2016)
26 - Earthly Remains (Apr-2017)
27 - The Temptation of Forgiveness (Mar-2018)
28 - Unto Us a Son Is Given (Mar-2019)
29 - Trace Elements (Mar-2020)
30 - Transient Desires (Mar-2021)
31 - Give Unto Others (Mar-2022)
32 - So Shall You Reap (Mar-2023)
33 - A Refiner's Fire (Jul-2024)
Book List in Order: 37 titles
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Death at la Fenice
- Jul-1992
- / Police Procedural
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Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brun...
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Death in a Strange Country
- Jun-1993
- / Police Procedural
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DEATH IN THE CANAL Venice in the early morning is a picture of tranquillity. Until the day the serenity is shattered by the gruesome discovery of a body floating in a canal. Resisting pressure from his politically motivated superior to wrap up the...
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Dressed for Death // The Anonymous Venetian
- Jun-1994
- / Police Procedural
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A BODY IN THE BANK EARNS A DIFFERENT KIND OF INTEREST Respectable Venetians hardly notice the murder of a transvestite prostitute until the body is identified as the staid director of the Banca di Verona. While tongues wag over the scandal, only G...
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Death and Judgment // A Venetian Reckoning
- Jun-1995
- / Police Procedural
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A QUESTION OF MOTIVE Someone is killing Italy's prominent businessmen--but why? At first glance the murders appear unrelated. However, Venice's most charming and tenacious detective, Vice-Commissario Guido Brunetti, suspects a fatal link. Unraveli...
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Death in High Water // Acqua Alta
- Oct-1996
- / Police Procedural
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As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon's intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of reigning diva Flavia Petrelli. Then, as the flood waters rise, a cor...
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The Death of Faith // Quietly in Their Sleep
- Jun-1997
- / Police Procedural
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In Quietly in Their Sleep, the philosophical Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has left her convent after five of her patients died unexpectedly. In the course of his inquiries Brunetti encou...
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A Noble Radiance
- Mar-1998
- / Police Procedural
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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 begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave....
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Fatal Remedies
- Feb-1999
- / Police Procedural
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COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI'S CAREER IS UNDER THREAT AS HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL LIVES UNEXPECTEDLY INTERSECT For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters ...
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Friends in High Places
- Apr-2000
- / Police Procedural
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In Friends in High Places, Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the construction of Brunetti's apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucr...
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A Sea of Troubles
- Mar-2001
- / Police Procedural
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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 th...
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Wilful Behaviour
- Mar-2002
- / Police Procedural
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Donna Leon's most powerful novel yet, as the murder of a young girl draws Commissario Brunetti into buried secrets dating back to WWII.... When one of his wife Paula's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating...
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Uniform Justice
- Mar-2003
- / Police Procedural
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COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI IS CALLED TO INVESTIGATE A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE--AND NO ONE IS TALKING ... A young cadet 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 ...
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Doctored Evidence
- Apr-2004
- / Police Procedural
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After the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment, the authorities suspect her maid, who is on the run with a large sum of money. But when the maid herself meets an untimely end trying to escape from border police,...
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Blood from a Stone
- Apr-2005
- / Police Procedural
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Shortly before Christmas a man is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. An illegal immigrant from Senegal, he is one of the vu cumpra who sells fake fashion accessories while trying to stay ahead of the law. At first the crime seems like a simple c...
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Through a Glass Darkly
- May-2006
- / Police Procedural
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On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant, Vianello, play hooky in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, an environmental activist who has been arrested during a protest. But on the steps of the Questura, the...
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Suffer the Little Children
- Apr-2007
- / Police Procedural
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Summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a respected pediatrician, Commissario Guido Brunetti is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men had burst into the doctor's apartment while his family was sleeping and kidnappe...
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The Girl of His Dreams
- May-2008
- / Police Procedural
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A PREACHER WHO MAY BE FLEECING HIS OWN FLOCK AND A DEAD GIRL NO ONE WILL CLAIM ... THIS TIME COMMISSARIO GUIDO BRUNETTI MUST UNRAVEL TWO BEGUILING MYSTERIES When a friend of Guido Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of mission...
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About Face
- Apr-2009
- / Police Procedural
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Work turns toxic for a Venice, Italy police detective in this novel in the award-winning, New York Times"bestselling series. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable level...
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A Question of Belief
- May-2010
- / Police Procedural
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Commissario Guido Brunetti longs to escape the crowds of tourists and oppressive heat of Venice in August. But before he can join his family on holiday in the mountains, a folder containing court records lands on his desk. An old friend suspects a si...
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Brunetti's Cookbook
- May-2010
- / Law Enforcement
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“Fans of Donna Leon’s mysteries set in Venice and starring her cosmopolitan detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, will be delighted to have this cookbook” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Aside from their puzzling mysteries, Donna Leon’s...
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Drawing Conclusions
- Apr-2011
- / Police Procedural
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Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brun...
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Beastly Things
- Apr-2012
- / Police Procedural
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Donna Leon's best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has won her legions of passionate fans, reams of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Brunetti, both a perceptive investigator and a warmhearted ...
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Venetian Curiosities
- Jun-2012
- / General Fiction
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Donna Leon, the novelist and long-term Venetian resident, presents the most intriguing tales from the history of Venice - among them, the elephant that sought sanctuary in a church and a gambler who wagered the family palazzo - that have helped shape...
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The Jewels of Paradise
- Oct-2012
- / Mystery
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Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her best-selling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first standalon...
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The Golden Egg
- Apr-2013
- / Police Procedural
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In THE GOLDEN EGG, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor’s future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass politi...
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My Venice and Other Essays
- Dec-2013
- / General Fiction
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Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate p...
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By Its Cover
- Apr-2014
- / Police Procedural
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Donna Leon's critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploring politics, morality...
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Falling in Love
- Apr-2015
- / Police Procedural
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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 ...
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
- Mar-2016
- / Police Procedural
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In Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds him...
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Earthly Remains
- Apr-2017
- / Police Procedural
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Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details a...
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
- Mar-2018
- / Police Procedural
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In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon's bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences The memorable characters and Venetian drama that ...
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
- Mar-2019
- / Police Procedural
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“Your situation is always ambiguous, isn’t it, Guido?”, his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon’s soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN. “The wor...
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Trace Elements
- Mar-2020
- / Police Procedural
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A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at ...
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Transient Desires
- Mar-2021
- / Police Procedural
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New York Times Bestseller: Two injured, unconscious American women are found in Venice, Italy, leading a police detective down a dark path: “A splendid read.” -- BookPage In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of ...
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Give Unto Others
- Mar-2022
- / Police Procedural
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Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling watersWhat role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Gui...
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So Shall You Reap
- Mar-2023
- / Mystery
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In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague...
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A Refiner's Fire
- Jul-2024
- / General Fiction
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In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never wasAround one AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arreste...