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Uniform Justice

Uniform Justice
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice’s elite military academy, Brunetti’s emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the...

Venice

Venice
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

Venice Observed

Venice Observed
  • Author(s): Mary McCarthy
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Mary McCarthy’s VENICE OBSERVED is not really a history, nor is it a guidebook – it is the reflections of a young woman in 1950s Venice who enjoys the art and architecture of this wonderful city.

Wilful Behaviour

Wilful Behaviour
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife’s students with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, he thinks little of...

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...

The Girl of His Dreams

The Girl of His Dreams
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti’s wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden...

The Perfect Lie

The Perfect Lie
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Falmouth, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense… For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to...

The Spy of Venice

The Spy of Venice
  • Author(s): Benet Brandreth
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1580s

A historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist and a hero like you’ve never seen him before When he’s caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London,...

A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island’s close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders...

About Face

About Face
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

The 18th book in the Guido Brunetti series, dealing with toxic waste and the environmental problems besetting not only Venice but wider Italy. Rifling garbage, Brunetti discovers the secrets that the mobsters would like to keep hidden.

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