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2) Acqua alta
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“A dramatic and deeply satisfying climax . . . a high-stakes mystery in which the setting vibrates with as much life as the story itself.” —Publishers Weekly
As Venice braces for a winter tempest, intrepid Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an archaeologist and old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of opera singer Flavia Petrelli.
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As Venice braces for a winter tempest, intrepid Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an archaeologist and old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of opera singer Flavia Petrelli.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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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...
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 20
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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With the help of Inspector Vianello and Signorina Elettra, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the suspicious death of a Venetian widow.
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 8
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 32
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder. On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri...
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 19
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Under the stifling summer sun, Venice is flooded with tourism. Commissario Guido Brunetti is planning the perfect mountain vacation where he can catch up on his reading. However, before he can go, an old friend has him look into a court corruption case. As he probes deeper, Commissario Brunetti quickly becomes embroiled in a shocking murder case that is linked to his own investigation.
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 26
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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...
10) By its cover
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 23
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English
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One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist....
11) Falling in love
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 24
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
12) Uniform justice
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 12
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
13) Beastly things
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 21
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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. 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...
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 16
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
15) Give unto others
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 31
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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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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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 13
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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When a Romanian housekeeper, a prime suspect in the brutal murder of her employer, dies while fleeing arrest, the police close the books on the crime, until new information prompts Commissario Guido Brunetti to investigate.
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 25
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Hired to investigate a suspicious near-drowning that left a girl permanently brain damaged years earlier, Brunetti struggles to determine if a crime was actually committed, in a case set against a backdrop of dynamic transitions in contemporary Venice.
18) Trace elements
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 29
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him, Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni...
19) The golden egg
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 22
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English
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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.
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Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 30
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Commissario Guido Brunetti must go outside his jurisdiction and work with both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera after two young American women suffer injuries while joyriding in the Laguna with two Italian men. What's really at stake is the men's suspicious behavior, which leads Brunetti to a particularly gruesome crime.
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