Donna Leon

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley....

Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins....

When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate....

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....

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces....

As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son....

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains....

When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city....

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano....

Donna Leon's 30th Brunetti novel is as powerful as any she has crafted, testing Brunetti to his limits, forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth....

Twenty-one years ago....

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano....

By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series....

Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties....

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....

A 10-year-old gypsy girl is found dead in the canal, a man's wedding ring and watch in her possession, and Commissario Guido Brunetti uncovers a thorny world of prejudice and malefaction surrounding the immigrant gypsy communities....

Once again, Commissario Guido Brunetti is willing to bend police rules for an acquaintance, even though Elisabetta Foscarini, the woman who asks the favour, is not really a friend....

Now Brunetti's own career is under threat as his professional and personal lives clash....

In Uniform Justice, a young cadet has been found hanged....

When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding....