"Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand in hand, and the result is rich entertainment." -The Sunday Times (London)...

Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in...

'Every detail on every page forms part of a succession of clues, planted with exquisite precision, to unravelling the mystery' Sunday Times In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a...

'The virtues of Leon's writing are all on display in ... Doctored Evidence ... [Leon] has a wonderful feeling for the social complexities of Venice, where corruption is as old and deep and treacherous as the canals ... Like all the best...

'Leon ... has once again, apparently effortlessly, produced a wholly absorbing read.' Sunday TelegraphA Book Sense Notable Book__________________________________It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and...

"A stunning novel, the best of this brilliant series, with a twist at the end that will leave even the most sophisticated reader gasping."-Globe and Mail von Leon, Donna

Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes of escaping the sweltering heat of Venice in August for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in a field in Marghera-a body so badly beaten...

In Donna Leon's brilliant twentieth mystery, Brunetti must prove that all is not what it seems in the death of an elderly widow von Leon, Donna

'Brunetti is hard to beat - Leon's tenth novel more than maintains the standard of its predecessors.' Times Literary Supplement__________________________________The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the...

During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt...

A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel von Leon, Donna

A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel von Leon, Donna