Donna Leon

The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. 'A delightful companion in life and on the page' The Times 'Donna Leon has created a beautifully crafted looking glass into her world' TLS From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its...

A new look for the first instalment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon. 'A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it.' — The Sunday Telegraph Winner of the Suntory Mystery Fiction Grand Prize The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in...

An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humour and irony. Donna Leon's memoir, Wandering Through Life, gave her legions of fans a colourful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love...

A new look for the seventh installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon. 'Every detail on every page forms part of a succession of clues, planted with exquisite precision, to unravelling the mystery' - Sunday Times In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of...

A new look for the second Brunetti novel from award-winning crime writer Donna Leon. Brunetti . . . long ago joined the ranks of the classic fictional detectives - Evening Standard When the body of a young man is pulled out of a fetid Venetian canal, all clues point to a violent mugging. But for Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the...

The celebrated Venetian detective returns in his 31st case in a year of celebration for his author, Donna Leon. Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti — Val McDermid Crime writing of the highest order — Guardian The gifted Venetian detective returns in his 31st...

The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past. Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul. - Mark Sanderson,...

A new look for the twenty-fifth installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon. 'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple effects of a single traumatic event . . . Leon has recast the city in her own venerable image- full of surprises and hidden beauty.' Evening Standard Fifteen years ago,...

A new look for the twenty-ninth novel in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series The New York Times Bestseller Leon is a superb novelist . . . You can feel the tension, fear, horror - and wonder The Times 'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patient gasps these cryptic words about her recently-deceased husband, who lost his...

With the dramatic force of Tosca, Donna Leon's twenty-fourth novel in the bestselling Brunetti crime series quivers with the passion of opera and with the power of obsession. Donna Leon's deft and descriptive words do for Venice what Canaletto did for this serenest of cities with his brushes and paint palette and bring it to life in all its reach...

An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humour and irony. Whether walking along the canals of Venice or teaching English to Iranian pilots, interviewing blood diamond dealers or reading Great Expectations, Donna Leon has found inspiration in the strangest of places....

Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties. 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...

"A gripping first mystery, as beguiling and secretly sinister as Venice herself. Sparkling and irresistible." -- Rita Mae Brown The first book in the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti detective series in which a high society murder leads Guido to investigate the darker side of beautiful Venice. There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery...

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognisable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact...

Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that Brett Lynch, a friend since a murder case at La Fenice, has suffered a savage beating. The attack, in the beautiful palazzo home of Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had come with a message: "Don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato." Then, with the storm clouds...

A new look for the fifteenth installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon. Leon...has once again, apparently effortlessly, produced a wholly absorbing read. Sunday Telegraph It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Inspettore Vianello take a break from the Questura to come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti,...

A new look for the landmark thirtieth instalment of the global bestselling Commissario Brunetti series. Chosen as Star Pick in the Sunday Times Crime Club Chosen as a 'Best New Crime Novel' in the Sunday Times 'The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement' – The Times 'Leon's books are a joy' – Guardian When...

A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon features Commissario Guido Brunetti's return with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties. When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. However, when Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet...

When two fishermen are murdered on the island of Pellestrina, Commissario Brunetti must work closely with his secretary-turned-undercover-agent to solve the case. Donna Leon goes from strength to strength ... This is her tenth novel but it's as fresh and entertaining as the first - Observer When two clam fishermen are murdered on the island of Pellestrina, Commissario Brunetti is...