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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
The Golden Egg #22 Brunetti by Donna Leon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Brunetti Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992 s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the world. For her ...Show more
The Golden Egg (Brunetti #22) by Donna Leon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Commissario Brunetti
Celebrated by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers, Donna Leon brings Venice to life in the twenty-second Brunetti novel of this bestselling series, where our detective must uncover the mystery surrounding a mute man's murder. When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that ...Show more
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in ...Show more
The Temptation of Forgiveness (Brunetti #27) by Donna Leon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon's captivating series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences. Exasperated by the petty bureaucracy that constantly bedevils him, Brunetti is steadied by the embrace of his own ...Show more
Trace Elements #29 Brunetti by Donna Leon
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: A\Commissario Brunetti Mystery Ser.
'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patient gasps these cryptic words about her recently-deceased husband. Brunetti softly promises he will look into what appears to be a private family tragedy. He discovers that her husband worked for a company that monitored the cleanliness of Venice' ...Show more
Trace Elements (Brunetti #29) by Donna LEON
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: BRUNETTI #29 | Reading Level: very good
When Dottoressa Donato calls the Venetian Questura, reporting that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Commissario Claudia Griffoni know there is no time to waste. 'They killed him ... Bad money', are some of the siby ...Show more
Transient Desires by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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 ...Show more
Transient Desires #30 Brunetti by Donna Leon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Commissario Brunetti #30
The landmark thirtieth instalment of the global bestselling Commissario Brunetti series'The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement' The TimesChosen as Star Pick in the Sunday Times Crime ClubChosen as a 'Best New Crime Novel' in the Sunday Times_______________________ ...Show more
Unto Us a Son Is Given (Brunetti #28) PB by Donna Leon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: BRUNETTI #28 | Reading Level: 2 Crime
In the 28th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Brunetti's father-in-law, the Count Falier, urges Brunetti to investigate and intervene in the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda, to adopt a much younger man as his son. U ...Show more
Venetian Curiosities by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
A beautifully illustrated and harmonious exploration of one of the world's most beloved cities by acclaimed author Donna Leon. In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a city's mores, emb ...Show more
Wandering Through Life - A Memoir by Donna Leon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more