As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. 'There's nothing to remember about her except the good', she says. And that, thinks Brunetti, is correct. But then a ten-year-old gypsy girl, Ariana, is found dead in the canal.
As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. 'There...
On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label - but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police.
On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are...
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.
When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the c...
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia.
The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-kn...
Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of the apartment. But then the bureaucrat is found dead.
Commissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of the apartment. But then the bure...
Early one morning Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti, robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive.
Early one morning Guido Brunetti, Commissario of the Venice Police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid Ven...
When one of his wife's students is murdered, Commissario Brunetti's investigation opens up long-buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.
When one of his wife's students is murdered, Commissario Brunetti's investigation opens up long-buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation o...
The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli's apartment, fracture his skull and grab his 18-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent paediatrician has suffered such a violent assault.
The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli's apartment, fracture his skull and grab ...
A crisis is caused when Commissario Guido Brunetti's wife Paola breaks the law and is waiting at the scene of the crime to be apprehended. Brunetti is under more pressure at work and finds his career at risk as his professional and personal lives clash.
A crisis is caused when Commissario Guido Brunetti's wife Paola breaks the law and is waiting at the scene of the crime to be apprehended. Brunetti is...
