When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former...
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Author:FUNKE, Cornelia CarolineSummary:Two orphaned brothers are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. The brothers' freedom is threatened by a bungling detective hired by their aunt. They find shelter in an old, disused cinema...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham,...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:As the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he...
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Author:James, HenrySummary:Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers.
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Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
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Connie Farrell, a New York restaurant critic, is sitting in a first class seat on her way to Venice for the second honeymoon of a lifetime. There's only one problem, Tom, her high school sweetheart and husband of ten years, is not...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary: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. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns that cases at the local court are...
