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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 will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy.

When a body is found floating in a canal, disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge.

In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians.

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca. As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...

Dans la belle Venise, les activités criminelles semblent se calmer tandis que la ville sort de la pandémie. Le commissaire Brunetti profite de ce moment pour renouer avec la splendeur de la Sérénissime et sa riche culture. Cependant, la trêve prend fin quand une amie d’enfance de Brunetti arrive en catastrophe à la questure. Elle soupçonne son gendre d’être mêlé à des affaires sordides, et de mettre ainsi toute sa famille en danger. Brunetti va mener l’enquête en secret, aidé de la signorina Elettra et de la commissaire Claudia Griffoni, au risque de désobéir à sa hiérarchie.

This novel sees police secretary Signorina Elettra drawn into danger, as she volunteers to go undercover among the clam fishermen of the Venetian Lagoon. And Commissario Brunetti finds himself torn between duty and his feelings for her.

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 to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow-students.

In Uniform Justice, 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 own son, is rivalled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the truth.

Scherben auf der Piazza San Marco. Zwei Kinderbanden sind aneinandergeraten, mitten in der Nacht. Während Commissario Griffoni mit weiblichem Gespür herauszubekommen versucht, wie ein Teenager in den Sog eines Flashmobs geraten konnte, nutzt Brunetti seine eigenen Connections. Ja sogar Vice-Questore Patta ist zu allem bereit, um sich und seine Leute vor Vorkommnissen zu schützen, die zumal in einer Touristenstadt wie Venedig nicht willkommen sind.

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. However, the weather is the last thing on Ispettore Vianello’s mind; it seems his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to unofficially trail her, which leads to the flat of Stefano Gorini. But who is this man?

As Donna Leon's many fans have come to expect, beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment, the authorities suspect her maid. But when the maid meets an untimely end trying to escape from border police, and it appears that the money she carried may not have been stolen, Commissario Guido Brunetti decides, unofficially, to take the case on himself.

Storytel представляет «Смерть в Ла Фениче» – первый роман в серии венецианских детективов Донны Леон, мрачных и изысканных, как и сам этот город. Американская писательница Донна Леон пишет о Венеции со знанием дела, ведь она прожила там более трёх десятков лет. В этом городе происходит действие всех её детективов о комиссаре Гвидо Брунетти, которого называют итальянским комиссаром Мегрэ – со знаменитым французским сыщиком их роднит любовь к роскошной национальной кухне и искусству.

Pendant une représentation de "La Traviata" au théâtre vénitien La Fenice, on annonce brutalement que le célébrissime chef d'orchestre allemand Wellauer ne pourra diriger la suite du spectacle. Le maître gît dans sa loge, le visage horriblement déformé par la douleur. Le commissaire Brunetti se rend sur les lieux, et constate immédiatement que cette mort est suspecte : la victime présente tous les symptômes d'un empoisonnement au cyanure.

Comissario 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 visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who has been found murdered.

La cinquième enquête du commissaire Brunetti. Venise en hiver : une cité crépusculaire, envahie par les eaux de la lagune durant l'acqua alta, et où l'on est obligé d'enfiler des bottes si l'on ne veut pas se mouiller les pieds. C'est dans cette ville battue par la pluie que le commissaire Brunetti va devoir enquêter sur la mort du dottor Semenzato, conservateur.

But once Brunetti begins investigating this Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the immigrant society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. How far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice's illegal community?

Elisabetta Foscarini, Jugendfreundin von Brunetti und immer noch eine Schönheit, taucht eines Tages in der Questura auf. Ob Brunetti verdeckt ermitteln könne, wer die Familie ihrer Tochter bedroht? Konkrete Tathinweise fehlen. Wer sollte auch einer Tierärztin Böses wollen und einem Buchhalter, der für eine wohltätige Stiftung gearbeitet hat? Schon will Brunetti das Ganze als übertriebene mütterliche Sorge abtun, da kommt es zu einem Überfall, der menschliche Abgründe offenbart.

Le commissaire Brunetti, surmené par des dossiers compliqués, s’offre une retraite solitaire dans une superbe villa de l’île de Sant’Erasmo, loin de sa femme Paola et de son patron. Il a bien l’intention d’y passer ses journées à ramer sur la lagune vénitienne et à déguster des plats locaux. Mais soudain, le paradis vire au cauchemar quand le gardien de la villa, Davide Casati, disparaît lors d’un violent orage. Personne, pas même la femme qu’il rencontrait le soir en secret, ne sait où il se trouve.