Tod vor dem Brennofen. Ist ein Familienzwist zwischen dem Fabrikbesitzer und seinem Schwiegersohn schuld? Oder musste der Nachtwächter der Glasmanufaktur dafür büßen, dass er ein fanatischer Umweltschützer und Leser ist? In einer Ausgabe von Dantes Inferno entdeckt Brunetti die entscheidende Spur.

Tiere und Töne das gibt es in der Oper, in Händels Arien. Wenn Donna Leon sich weder bekochen lässt noch Krimis schreibt, dann hört sie Musik. Im vorliegenden Buch sind ihre Lieblingsarien versammelt, begleitet von 12 fabelhaften Texten über Löwe, Nachtigall, Frosch, Elefant und viele mehr. Illustriert von Michael Sowa. Mit einer CD: 12 Händel-Arien, Il Complesso Barocco , dirigiert von Alan Curti

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."

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim s apartment that suggests the existence of a high-level conspiracy, Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody is taking great pains to provide a ready-made solution to the crime.
Rich with atmosphere and marvelous plotting, "Death in a Strange Country" is a superb novel in Donna Leon s...

In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains.
Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditional relationship between the two women....

When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself.

Internationally praised for her Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Donna Leon s first standalone novel features a widely different but equally compelling sleuth, Caterina Pellegrini. Caterina is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she s had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity.
The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of...