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Earthly Remains (Brunetti #26) by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Brunetti Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Commissario Guido Brunetti MysteryIn the 26th mystery in Donna Leon's bestselling series set in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti's endurance is tested. During his interrogation of an arrogant man suspected of causing a young girl's death, Brunetti does something ra ...Show more
Falling in Love (Brunetti #24) by Donna Leon
$39.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Brunetti
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 ...Show more
Fatal Remedies (Brunetti #8) by Donna Leon
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Brunetti Ser.
"Rejacketed reissue t began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none ...Show more
Friends in High Places (#9 Brunetti) by Donna Leon
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Brunetti | Reading Level: General Adult
When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. ...Show more
Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery
Once again, Commissario Guido Brunetti is willing to bend police rules for an acquaintance, even though Elisabetta Foscarini, the woman who asks the favour, is not really a friend. But her mother was good to Brunetti's, so he feels he has no choice but to repay the debt and agrees to look into the matte ...Show more
Gondola by Donna Leon
$44.00 NZD
Category: World History
Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the internationally acclaimed 'American with the Venetian heart', Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story. First used in m ...Show more
My Venice and Other Essays by Donna Leon
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Donna Leon's wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politics, family life, and history of Venice, one of the world's most treasured cities and Leon's home for ove ...Show more
So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past 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 can ...Show more
Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàa Carabinieri captain and two privates from out of town ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàhave burst into t ...Show more
The Death Of Faith (Brunetti #6) by Donna Leon
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Commissario Brunetti Ser. | Reading Level: 16
Step into the romance and soul of a Venice where murder and intrigue hide. Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as ...Show more
The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Brunetti
As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky, the tops of the Venetian cypress trees, moving gently in the spring breezes. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. 'There's nothing to remember about her except the good', she says. And that, thinks ...Show more
The Girl of His Dreams #17 Brunetti by Donna Leon
$27.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Brunetti
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 de ...Show more