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A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
About Face
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
The 18th installment in the deliciously entertaining series, this time Leon sets her urbane Venetian policeman on the trail of none other than ... garbage -- or rather corruption, murder, toxic waste, trucking, toxic wade and the environment, all wrapped in leisurely ,meals with wife and children and lots of scenes of daily life. The titles refers to a great baeuty, ruined by a tragically misguided facelift, part of a second plot involving the father-in-law.
(ITA54, $14.00) |
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Acqua Alta
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
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, $14.00) |
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Blood from a Stone
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 320 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, $14.00) |
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Brunetti's Cookbook
• Tatjana Hauptmann
• Donna Leon
• Roberta Pianaro
FOOD •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions of food. Multicourse lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacks grabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busy day, or a working lunch at a neighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Brunetti, as well as Leon's readers and reviewers. And then there's the coffee, the pastries, the wine, and the grappa. In Brunetti's Cookbook, Donna Leon's best friend and favorite cook brings to life these fabulous Venetian meals. Eggplant crostini, orrechiette with asparagus, pumpkin ravioli, roasted artichokes, baked branzino, pork ragu with porcini: these are just a few of the over ninety recipes for antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci.
(ITA133, $24.95) |
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Death and Judgment
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 304 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, $14.00) |
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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, $14.99) |
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Death in a Strange Country
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
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, $14.00) |
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Doctored Evidence
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
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, $14.00) |
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Drawing Conclusions
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
Leon's 20th Commissario Guido Brunetti novel. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, Brunetti probes into what appears to be a simple case of an old woman, who died quietly of a heart attack at home.
(ITA241, $15.00) |
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Dressed for Death
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2008 •
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, $14.00) |
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Fatal Remedies
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
Commissario Brunetti returns in the latest installment of Leon's popular mystery series.
(ITL856, $14.00) |
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Friends in High Places
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 255 PAGES
The tenth in the excellent Comissario Brunetti series, this mystery follows the investigation of a bureaucrat's dubious fall from a scaffold.
(ITL968, $15.00) |
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The Girl of His Dreams
• Donna Leon
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 320 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, $14.00) |
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A Noble Radiance
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
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, $14.00) |
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A Question of Belief
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
In this 19th book in Donna Leon's much-loved series, Comissario Brunetti grapples with ever more ingenious corruption, the usual bureaucratic intransigence -- and the sweltering Venetian summer. As usual it is not so much the very interesting crimes to be solved (judge on the take, shady psychic bilking an old lady) but the meals, Brunetti's family and scenes of Venice, where Leon has lived many years.
(ITA134, $15.00) |
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Quietly in Their Sleep
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
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, $14.00) |
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A Sea of Troubles
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
The tenth book in the enertaining series. 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 the Mafia. When the Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her…
(ITA55, $14.00) |
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Suffer the Little Children
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 288 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, $14.00) |
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Through a Glass, Darkly
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 272 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, $14.00) |
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Uniform Justice
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 258 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, $14.00) |
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Willful Behavior
• Donna Leon
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Murder and an extraordinary collection of art lead Brunetti to uncover Italy's history of Nazi collaboration and exploitation of Jews in Donna Leon's 11th Commissario Brunetti novel.
(ITA167, $14.00) |
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