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Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 17
Language
English
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Going undercover to investigate a new Protestant sect that has begun meeting in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti is forced to put his probe aside when the body of a young gypsy girl turns up in a local canal.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 22
Language
English
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Description
At the request of his wife, Commissario Brunetti looks into the death of deaf, mentally disabled man who worked at their dry-cleaners and uncovers a mystery when the man left no official records and his mother is reluctant to speak to him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 20
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious death of a Venetian widow.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 26
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"During an interrogation, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he quickly comes to regret, and in the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti's wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny's Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan until...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Even with Venice slowly emerging from the worst of the pandemic, the "bodies of dead shops" still line the canals, and most people shun the casual touching that was once a fixture of social interaction. In this newly distanced world, police commissario Guido Brunetti finds how much he misses "the soft, caressing humanity of the past." And, yet, as he learns in this thirty-first episode in Leon's celebrated series, human connectedness can sometimes...
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