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- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon’s bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice’s expatriate set and find a...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals,...
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