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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

During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work.Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on SantErasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Plinys Natural History.The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman hed been secretly visiting. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend.In Earthly Remains, Donna Leon shows Venice through an insiders eyes. From family meals and vaporetti rides to the never-ending influx of tourists and suffocating political corruption, the details and rhythms of everyday Venetian life are at the core of this thrilling novel, and of the terrible crime at its heart.

During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. There, he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny's Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him - not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he'd been secretly visiting. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend. In Earthly Remains, Donna Leon shows Venice through an insider's eyes. From family meals and vaporetti rides to the never-ending influx of tourists and suffocating political corruption, the details and rhythms of everyday Venetian life are at the core of this thrilling novel, and of the terrible crime at its heart.

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 thirtieth 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. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behaviour of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumoured to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organised.Donna Leon's thirtieth Brunetti novel is as powerful as any she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits, forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth.

Le commissaire Brunetti n''aime pas mêler travail et famille, alors quand son beau-père le comte Falier lui demande une faveur, il est bien tracassé. Un de ses meilleurs amis, Gonzalo Rodriguez de

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He believes the mans death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his companys trucks.

The thoughtful and charming [Brunetti] is on top form . . . His nicely balanced world . . . is cumulatively engrossing. In this domestic detail, Leon roots the power of the ordinary, moral individual. Sunday TimesWinner of the Spoken Word Awards Silver Award__________________________________On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venices Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the mans wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label - but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police.When Commissario Brunetti arrives on the scene, he finds it hard to understand why anyone would murder an illegal immigrant. They have few social connections and little money in-fighting among them is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake in the immigrant community...

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia.

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra to find out what she can while hes away. When news reaches Brunetti that the usher from the Courthouse has been viciously murdered, he returns to investigate.

Surmené et épuisé, le commissaire Brunetti décide de prendre des vacances. Loin de Paola et de la questure, il s'offre un séjour en solitaire dans une villa de l'île de Sant'Erasmo. Au programme : ra

Un prestigieux chef d'orchestre allemand s'effondre pendant une représentation de La Traviata au théâtre de la Fenice, à Venise. Après avoir constaté l'empoisonnement au cyanure, le commissaire Brune

Caterina Pellegrini, diplômée en musicologie au chômage, s'engage en qualité de documentaliste dans une fondation de Venise. Elle doit ainsi faire face à une lutte entre deux cousins, attisée par une

Comme tous ceux qui la cotoient, le docteur Carlotti hait sa patiente Maria Grazia Battestini, une vieille femme avare et acariatre. Il se rend a reculons a sa consultation hebdomadaire. Mais, ce jour-la, il ne se fait pas malmener, pour la simple et bonne raison qu'il la decouvre assassinee dans son appartement venitien. L'affaire est entre les mains du commissaire Brunetti.

Le jeune Ernesto Moro, élève de l'Académie militaire de Venise, est retrouvé pendu dans les douches. Le commissaire Guido Brunetti, lui-même père d'un adolescent, s'interroge sur la véracité de ce su

Brett Lynch, une archéologue américaine, Vénitienne d'adoption, est sauvagement brutalisée par deux voyous à son domicile. Une agression qui semble avoir pour but de l'empêcher de rencontrer le conse

Nesta história encontramos o comissário Guido Brunetti. Para quem não conhece as obras da autora, existem uma série de livros em que Guido é a personagem principal. Este é o 3º mas pode ser lido de f

Quand le commissaire Brunetti reçoit une collegue de sa femme inquiete pour son fils Alessandro qui se drogue, ce sont le pere de famille et le policier qui se mobilisent aussitot en lui. Au meme moment, un homme est retrouve au pied dunpont, gravement blesse : le pere dAlessandro. Aucun temoin ni indice, et pourtant Brunetti fait le lien avec les addictions de son fils. Cependant, informations contradictoires et meme mensonges le deroutent. Aide de la belle commissaire Griffoni et de lastucieuse signorina Elettra, il mene son enquete dans un reseau de mysterieux indics du monde de la drogue, de transactions souterraines et dune arnaque scandaleuse, jusqua devoiler une verite insoupçonnee sur de sombres crimes.Dans cette affaire qui tourmente Brunetti, il aura plus que jamais besoin de se tourner vers sa famille, le plaisir de se plonger dans ses livres et les bons petits plats de son epouse Paola