Acqua Alta  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Number five in the series, this is another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries. In this installment, a body is discovered in the home of diva Flavia Petrelli. (ITL559, $7.99)
Blood from a Stone  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 276 PAGES Book number 14 in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries, again set in a richly evoked contemporary Venice. In this installment, a Senegalese immigrant is murdered in a public square and no some seems to care. Brunetti's young daughter dismisses the case with a breezy comment that he was only a vu compra (immigrant peddler). This, as you might imagine, leads to interesting questions of race and class. This is the Venice of gossip and incompetent politicians and corruption, not some white-washed paradise. (ITL615, $7.99)
Death and Judgment  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES In the fourth installment in the enormously satisfying Guido Brunetti series, the Commissario investigates suspicious happenings in Santa Lucia, Venice and the Dolomites. (ITL745, $7.99)
Death at La Fenice  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 270 PAGES The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice. A famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. Donna Leon, as you might guess, is an opera expert. (ITL555, $13.95)
Death in a Strange Country  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES This, the second in Brunetti mysteries, opens with a body of an American soldier in a Venetian Canal, an excellent opportunity for Commisario Brunetti to take on military might, the Mafia and local politicians. (ITL556, $7.99)
Doctored Evidence  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER Another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, a miserly, unpleasant woman is found murdered and all eyes, at least until our hero arrives, point to her Romanian housekeeper. This is number 13 in the series. Leon seamlesslessly weaves details of Venice and of the family life of her detective (whose kids are now teenagers) into her tale. (ITL613, $7.99)
Dressed for Death  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, what looks first like the obvious murder of a tranvestite prostitute gets much more complicated when the body turns out to be that of a bank director. Our poor dective has to cancel his vacation in the mountains to find out what is what. (ITL614, $7.99)
Fatal Remedies  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES Commissario Brunetti returns in the latest installment of Leon's popular mystery series. (ITL856, $7.99)
Friends in High Places  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES The tenth in the excellent Comissario Brunetti series, this mystery follows the investigation of a bureaucrat's dubious fall from a scaffold. (ITL968, $7.99)
The Girl of His Dreams  •  Donna Leon LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 272 PAGES The 17th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery is an absorbing and as imbued with the geography, politics and atmosphere of Venice as ever. Thickly plotted, the book opens with the funeral of Brunetti's mother,and includes going undercover to investigate a secretive religious sect and, as the title hints. the suspicious death of a young gypsy girl. (ITL940, $24.00)
A Noble Radiance  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 277 PAGES Number seven in the Guido Brunetti mysteries, all memorably set in contemporary Venice. For some readers, this installment is the best yet. A body is found on the estate of a local landowner at the foot of the Dolomites. (ITL557, $7.99)
Quietly in Their Sleep  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES The sixth book in Donna Leon's satisfying series, originally published as Death of Faith in 1997 and now appearing on these shores in a paper edition. (ITL833, $7.99)
Suffer the Little Children  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery delves into the world of doctors and medicine in a wonderfully realized contemporary Venice. In it A brutal attack on a pediatrician by a Carabiniere captain and two privates, who also take away the doctor's eighteen-month-old son, draws Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Inspector Vianello, into a dangerous case involving a ring of baby traffickers and an illegal money-making scheme between pharmacists and doctors. (ITL834, $7.99)
Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guide Brunetti Mystery  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Number 15 in the enormously satisfying, wonderfully erudite series memorably set in the author's beloved Venice and starring police commissioner Guido Brunetti. The secrets of the Murano glass factories unfold as Brunetti, with the help of an annotated Dante's "Inferno," discovers a body that may reveal the mystery of the polluted Venetian waters. (ITL714, $7.99)
Uniform Justice  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES In this twelfth entry in the satisfying Guido Brunetti series a cadet is found dead. Leon conjures the atmosphere of Venice as evocatively as ever -- and has a few comments to make about the military too. (ITL558, $7.99)