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Author
Series
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 27
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 16
Language
English
Description
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men -- a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town -- have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume Book 1
Publisher
Harper Torch
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 18cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Physical Desc
308 p.
Language
English
Description
"Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of Venice. From family meals to vaporetti rides, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the never-ending influx of tourists and the suffocating corruption. Through it all, Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti, a good man who loves his family and his city, has been an enduring figure, but in Earthly...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.
10) By its cover
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
237 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
264 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 6
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Commisario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has left her convent after five of her patients have died unexpectedly. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled onto something very real and very sinister? Something that places her own life...
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 13
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English