“All Donna Leon’s novels are excellent in their evocation of place, while in Brunetti she has created a character who becomes more real in each book…However, Friends in High Places is by far the best and marks a quantum leap forward.” —Evening Standard (London)
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- Friends in High Places
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 1/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
In Friends in High Places, Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of approval for the building of Brunetti's apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is later found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into the unfamiliar and dangerous areas of drug abuse and loan-sharking, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.
- Friends in High Places
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 1/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Fatal Remedies
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 3/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
In Fatal Remedies, Brunetti's career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family. Meanwhile, he is also under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with connections to a suspicious accidental death. Could the two crimes be connected? And will Brunetti be able to prove his family's innocence before it's too late?
- Fatal Remedies
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 3/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Willful Behavior
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By Donna Leon
Read by Steven Crossley
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Release Date: 11/03/11
Formats: Digital Audy
Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon’s ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice’s beautiful but sinister byways and canals.
In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it—until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews—secrets few in Italy want revealed.
- Willful Behavior
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By Donna Leon
Read by Steven Crossley
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Release Date: 11/03/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Sea of Troubles
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 8/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
Dona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario’s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra’s offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal to his beloved wife, Paola, he must admit that less-than-platonic emotions underlie his concern for his boss’s beautiful secretary. Suspenseful, provocative, and deeply unsettling, A Sea of Troubles is an explosive and irresistible addition to Leon’s marvelous series.
- A Sea of Troubles
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 8/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Death and Judgment
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 12/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train.
Suspecting a connection between the two tragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedy Venetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches far beyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venice before Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what is really going on.
- Death and Judgment
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 12/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dressed for Death
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 8/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death.
- Dressed for Death
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 8/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- About Face
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 4/03/09
Formats: Digital Audy
Donna Leon’s novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warmhearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon’s bestselling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption.
In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.
Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti’s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he’s seen before.
- About Face
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By Donna Leon
Read by David Colacci
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Release Date: 4/03/09
Formats: Digital Audy