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- Location(s): Hampshire, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod – no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends. And as...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1504
16th Century/Modern Venice: Grappling her own demons and the after-effects of a disaster, Fern battles to keep hold of her sanity as she’s snatched back in time and lives the life of Cecilia, a young woman at the court...
- Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century
Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Robert arrives in Venice leaving the manipulative and wealthy Curran, his family and the Romanian emigre Anna behind. He soon discovers, however, that they have followed him and are all staying in the Pensione Sofia hotel, which harbours a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination. THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor’lmmacolata,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half of the 15th Century /1st Century BCE
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer from Germany is setting...
- Location(s): Salò, Pellestrina
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
A World War II love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He’s happy to stay out of the way of the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been...
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