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Samstagabend auf dem Campo Santa Margherita. Nach einem Drink lassen sich zwei Touristinnen von ein paar Einheimischen zu einer Spritztour in die Lagune verführen. In der Dunkelheit rammt das Boot einen Pfahl, und die Amerikanerinnen enden bewusstlos auf dem Steg des Ospedale. Warum alarmierten ihre Begleiter nicht die Notaufnahme, wenn alles nur ein Unfall war? Je hartnäckiger Brunetti ermittelt, desto näher kommt er einem Monstrum, vor dem sich selbst die Mafia fürchtet.

In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge.

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 his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work. Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna.

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow-students.

Tod eines Schwarzafrikaners auf dem Campo Santo Stefano. Ein Streit unter Immigranten? Oder steckt mehr hinter der Ermordung eines Illegalen? Commissario Brunetti hakt trotz Warnungen von höchster Stelle nach und entdeckt Verbindungen, die weit über Venedig hinausreichen.

When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes that there is more to it.

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca. As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers.

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 Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene.

When a body is found floating in a canal, disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn.

Pendant une représentation de "La Traviata" au théâtre vénitien La Fenice, on annonce brutalement que le célébrissime chef d'orchestre allemand Wellauer ne pourra diriger la suite du spectacle. Le maître gît dans sa loge, le visage horriblement déformé par la douleur. Le commissaire Brunetti se rend sur les lieux, et constate immédiatement que cette mort est suspecte : la victime présente tous les symptômes d'un empoisonnement au cyanure.

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 worthy of the Mafia. When the Vice-Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her....

La aparición de dos chicas jóvenes inconscientes y con heridas graves a la entrada del Hospital Civil de Venecia pone a Brunetti y Griffoni tras la pista de dos jóvenes venecianos que podrían haber incurrido en un delito de omisión del deber de socorro. Se trata de Marcelo Vio y Filiberto Duso, dos amigos desde la infancia, muy diferentes entre sí: Duso trabaja como abogado para la firma de su padre, mientras Vio dejó de estudiar de niño y se gana la vida trabajando para su tío, que tiene un negocio de transporte de mercancías y una pequeña flota de barcas.

Schwächeanfall in der Questura. Brunetti landet im Ospedale Civile. Das Räderwerk des Alltags hat ihn zermürbt. Nachdem man ihn krankgeschrieben hat, will der Commissario in der Villa einer Verwandten von Paola zur Ruhe kommen. Wie wunderbar, einmal nicht Verbrechern hinterherzujagen, sondern in ländlicher Idylle seine Gedanken mit den Wolken ziehen zu lassen. Brunetti soll sich in der Lagune erholen: Doch zwischen Bienen und Blumen kommt er einem größeren Fall als je zuvor auf die Spur.

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 delighting readers around the world. For her millions of fans, Leon’s novels have opened a window into the private Venice of her citizens, a world of incomparable beauty, family intimacy, shocking crime, and insidious corruption.

Tandis que les feuilles d’automne commencent à tomber dans les rues de Venise, le vice-questeur Patta charge le commissaire Brunetti d'enquêter sur une infraction commise par le magasin de masques sur le campo San Barnaba appartenant à la future bru du maire. Mais voilà que sa femme, Paola, lui présente, elle aussi, une requête. L'homme, certainement handicapé mental, qui travaillait dans leur pressing, vient de mourir d'une overdose de somnifères.

Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda - ursprünglich aus Spanien stammend - hat im Kunsthandel ein Vermögen gemacht. Nun verbringt er seinen Lebensabend in Venedig. Was kommt dann? Soll die rigide Familie, die mit seinem freizügigen Lebenswandel noch nie einverstanden war, seine Schätze erben? Oder wer ist der Auserwählte? Brunettis Schwiegervater fürchtet, seinem Freund Gonzalo könne Übles zustoßen. Der Commissario soll helfen - und verläuft sich beinahe in den Abgründen des menschlichen Herzens.

Pas de repos pour le commissaire Brunetti en cet été caniculaire. Pendant que sa famille profite de la fraîcheur des montagnes, Brusca, son ami d'enfance, vient lui demander son aide. Il y aurait des cas de corruption au tribunal de Venise et une juge y serait mêlée. Pour Brunetti, c'est une occasion de plus de s'opposer à sa hiérarchie, peu pressée d'enquêter au sein du système judiciaire de la Sérénissime. Évidemment, des notables sont impliqués dans cette affaire, mais aussi dans l'enquête officieuse qu'il mène en parallèle avec l'inspecteur Vianello.

Le commissaire Brunetti, enquêtant sur la mort d'un célèbre avocat, arpente les quartiers malfamés de Venise et tombe sur la piste d'un trafic international de prostitution. Avec l'aide inattendue de la délicieuse signorina Elettra, la nouvelle secrétaire du vice-questeur, le commissaire Brunetti va découvrir un commerce plus ignoble encore qu'une "traite des Blanches" post-rideau de fer... Donna Leon rend hommage à l'atmosphère unique de la Cité des Doges.

Donna Leon hat viel erlebt, in Amerika, dem Iran, Saudi-Arabien, Italien natürlich oder in der Schweiz. Kaum aber passiert ihr ein Abenteuer, wird auch schon eine spannende Geschichte daraus. Sie erzählt uns von ihrer Jugend auf der Farm und von Sperrstunden-Pyjamapartys im Iran, Geldnot und einem Fiat 600. Davon, wie sie als "Anstandsdame" nach Italien kam, von der Jagd nach dem perfekten Cappuccino und kleinen Wundern in den Bergen.