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Un pédiatre et sa femme agressés en pleine nuit, leur bébé de dix-huit mois enlevé sous leurs yeux... Pourquoi diable des carabiniers - les gendarmes italiens - ont-ils fait irruption chez ce couple et se sont-ils empares de ce petit garçon ? Le coup porte par son assaillant a-t-il vraiment rendu le medecin muet, comme il le pretend ? Quel lien cette arrestation a-t-elle avec celles effectuees simultanement par les carabiniers dans d'autres villes ? Et enfin, qui a bien pu ordonner la mise en oeuvre d'une operation aussi effroyable ? Telles sont les questions qui taraudent le commissaire Guido Brunetti et son adjoint l'inspecteur Vianello lorsqu'on leur confie cette affaire. Pour cette nouvelle enquete, Donna Leon nous entraine dans les meandres de Venise la magnifique et dans ceux, sordides, d'un reseau de trafic d'enfants. Le seizieme volet des aventures du commissaire Brunetti est eblouissant. Donna Leon peaufine toujours, elle depeint chaque fois des portraits vivants de ses personnages et de Venise, sans jamais se departir de sa faculte d'indignation. The New York Times

Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead mans flat - something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere, is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime ...

Un soir que la neige tombe sur la Sérénissime, une femme blonde juchée sur des hauts talons et enveloppée dans un manteau de fourrure croise la route de notre cher commissaire Guido Brunetti. Elle s'appelle Franca Marinella, s'est fait remodeler le visage par un chirurgien peu adroit, cite Cicéron...

Dans ces Curiosités vénitiennes, Donna Leon rassemble les étonnantes légendes que se transmettent les Vénitiens de génération en génération : un éléphant sème la panique lors du carnaval avant de se réfugier dans une église ; les autorités de la ville embauchent des prostituées pour endiguer l'homosexualité ; des innocents sont condamnés à mort ; un joueur invétéré mise le palazzo familial... À travers sept histoires cocasses, la créatrice du commissaire Brunetti nous régale d'anecdotes charmantes et nous révèle quelques coutumes locales d'autrefois et d'aujourd'hui.Si ces Curiosités vénitiennes s'accompagnent d'un CD, c'est qu'à chaque histoire correspond un morceau d'Antonio Vivaldi, magnifi quement interprété par Il Complesso Barocco. Images, textes, musique : venez explorer dans l'harmonie l'une des plus belles villes du monde.Donna Leon, née dans le New Jersey, vit depuis plus de vingt ans à Venise, ville où se déroulent tous les romans policiers qui ont fait sa renommée internationale. Avec cet ouvrage, elle associe deux de ses passions,Venise et la musique baroque.

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti's home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead. As subtle and engrossing as ever, Leon's Beastly Things is immensely enjoyable, intriguing, and ultimately moving.

When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere.

Commissario Brunetti returns, for his 22nd outing! This time Donna Leon's hero is trying to track down the history of a mentally-challenged man who has been found dead. What does his untimely demise have to do with the Mayor of Leon's beautifully-drawn Venice, and how can this man's sad, lonely existence tell Brunetti about a much bigger mystery? Leon has done it again, with the passionate characters, the evocative locations and the enigmatic puzzles we have come to expect from one of our best Crime Writers.

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. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and took his 18-month-old son - but why? As he investigates, Brunetti finds infertility, desperation, and babies for sale. Meanwhile, Inspector Vianello uncovers a scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain… Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and gripping as ever, set in a beautifully realised Venice, seething with small-town malice.

El comisario Guido Brunetti investiga una agencia de viajes que, en realidad, transporta muchachas de la convulsa ex Yugoslavia hasta los burdeles de Venecia y los platós clandestinos en donde se filman las más escabrosas escenas de su violación y asesinato.

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near the steps in one of Venice''s side canals. 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.So 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. The investigation takes Brunetti from the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, through quicksands of connections and relationships both known and concealed, as he struggles with both institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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.

Des ossements humains. Peut-on imaginer plus insolite découverte dans un paisible village de la campagne vénitienne ? De ce puzzle macabre, on reconstitue un corps ; tout porte à croire qu'il s'agit