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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario 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.

"El veritable encant d?aquesta serie resideix en el carisma de Brunetti i la seva apassionada identificació amb l?ànima de Venecia". The New York Times Book ReviewMentre el commissario Brunetti prepa

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a Venetian businessman. He's 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 Maggiore Filipo Guarino from the nearby district of Marghera. Donna Leon estará en el Reino Unido para publicación.

Quan el commissario Brunetti coneix durant un sopar Franca Marinello, la dona d'un prosper empresari venecià, queda completament fascinat per la seva passió per Virgili i Ciceró, i una mica sorpres p

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers.

Cuando el comisario Brunetti conoce a Franca Marinello, esposa de un hombre de negocios veneciano, descubre que está lejos de ser la rubia superficial que el vestuario caro y el notorio lifting facial hacen prever. Varios días después el jefe local de los carabinieri, acude a Brunetti para investigar la muerte del dueño de una compañía de camiones, presuntamente relacionada con el transporte ilegal de residuos y la llamada ecomafía. Las pesquisas del comisario demuestran que Franca Marinello ha estado en contacto con el principal sospechoso, un hombre siniestro con un violento pasado. Pero la verdad siempre esconde un lado oscuro.

Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon's status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction. Donna's last book, A Question of Belief, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim's neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her?

Una nova novel·la del comissari Brunetti.Quan apareix el cos d'un home en un canal, desfigurat per les marees, sense cartera i amb una sabata com a única pista, Brunetti la balla magra.A la comissaria no consta cap denuncia de desaparicio i tampoc no ha desaparegut cap turista. On es, doncs, si es que n'hi ha una, l'escena del crim? Com podra identificar Brunetti l'home si no disposa de cap fotografia? Afortunadament, pero, l'autopsia ofereix una pista addicional: l'home patia d'una estranya malaltia. Per aqui, doncs, cal començar a investigar.D'altra banda, tant a casa com a la comissaria darrerament sembla que tothom s'hagi posat d'acord a abocar-se al tema dels drets dels animals i el consum de carn. No es estrany, per tant, que a mesura que avanci en la investigacio Brunetti dedueixi que aquell home tambe hi podria tenir alguna cosa a veure. Pero, ¿es possible que darrere aquell mort s'amagui una xarxa corrupta que esten els seus fils fins als escorxadors que dia a dia abasteixen de carn fresca milers de ciutadans?

Qui est cet inconnu dont le cadavre a été retrouvé dans le Grand Canal de Venise ? Bien que défiguré, l’homme semble familier à Brunetti. Ses recherches le mènent jusqu’à un abattoir du continent

Brunetti est de retour pour un plongeon fascinant dans l’univers mystérieux des livres anciens. Alors que, en ce maussade lundi de printemps, le commissaire Guido Brunetti pensait n’avoir rien d’a

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all.Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunettis mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessas teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal. She was rescued from the canal at the last moment but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage and life was never the same again. Once a passionate horse rider, Manuela, now aged 30, cannot remember the accident, or her beloved horse, and lives trapped in an eternal youth.The Contessa, unconvinced that this was an accident, implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life. Out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother, Brunetti reopens the case, much to the annoyance of his employer. But once he starts to investigate, Brunetti finds a murky past and a dark story at its heart.The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Venetian life, from historical preservation, to housing, to new waves of African migrants, and the haunting story of a woman trapped in a damaged perpetual childhood.

Donna Leon, Premi Pepe Carvalho 2016,presenta el nou cas del comissari Brunetti.La comtessa Demetriana Lando-Continui confia que Brunetti aclareixi les fosques circumstanciesque, ara fa quinze anys, van marcar tragicament la vida de la seva neta, en provocar-li una lesio cerebral irreversible.Segons la policia aquella nit la noia es va tirar a laigua dels canals victima de la depressioi de les drogues. Un home begut, Pietro Cavanis, va arribar a temps i va evitar que la noiasofegues. Les lesions, pero, ja eren massa greus.La comtessa mai ha cregut la versio policial i vol que Brunnetti reobri el cas. Ni la noia niCavanis recorden res del que va passar. Aixi que Brunetti haura de posar el nas als arxius iracons duna Venecia envaida de turistes, recelosa dels immigrants i amb una joventut desencantadai sense expectatives.

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty.From the canals and palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher has stolen them, but for Brunetti something doesn't quite add up. Taking on the case, the Commissario begins to seek information about some of the library's regulars, such as the ex-priest Franchini, a passionate reader of ancient Christian literature, and Contessa Morosini-Albani, the library's chief donor, and comes to the conclusion that the thief could not have acted alone. However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn and soon Brunetti finds himself submerged in the dark secrets of the black market of antiquarian books. Alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra, he delves into the pages of Franchini's past and into the mind of a book thief in order to uncover the terrible truth.

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.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. But when one anonymous admirer inundates her with bouquets of yellow roses on stage, in her dressing room and even inside her locked apartment it becomes clear that this fan has become a potentially dangerous stalker. Distraught, Flavia turns to an old friend for help. Familiar with Flavia's melodramatic temperament, Commissario Brunetti is at first unperturbed by her story, but when another young opera singer is attacked he begins to think Flavia's fears may be justified. In order to keep his friend out of danger, Brunetti must enter the psyche of an obsessive fan and find the culprit before anyone comes to harm.

Narrativa en ingles

Tandis que les feuilles d'automne commencent a tomber, le vice questeur Patta demande a Brunetti d'enqueter sur une petite infraction commise par la future bru du maire. Le commissaire Brunetti n'a guere envie d'aider son patron a recolter les faveurs politiques, mais il est bien oblige de s'incliner. Puis c'est au tour de sa femme, Paola, de lui presenter une requete. L'handicape mental employe par leur pressing vient de mourir d'une overdose de somniferes, et Paola ne peut pas supporter l'idee que dans la vie comme dans la mort, personne ne l'ait remarque ni aide. Brunetti se met au travail mais, a sa grande surprise, il ne decouvre rien sur cet homme : pas d'acte de naissance, pas de passeport, pas de permis de conduire, pas de carte de credit. Pour l'administration italienne, il n'a jamais existe. Plus etrange encore, sa mere refuse de parler a la police et assure au commissaire que les papiers d'identite de son fils ont ete voles lors d'un cambriolage. Au fil des revelations, Brunetti commence a soupçonner les Lembo, des aristocrates, d'etre meles a cette mort mysterieuse. Mais qui a bien pu vouloir tuer ce malheureux simple d'esprit ?

Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in the composer's two chests that have not been opened for centuries. As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque era. When her research takes her in unexpected directions, she begins to wonder what dark secrets these chests hold and just whom can she trust?