DONNA LEON

"Brunetti is a marvel: smart, cultured, and dedicated to his work." --"The Washington Post" ...

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Una joven traductora encuentra muerta a su vecina. La víctima es una señora mayor, sin enemigo aparente. Unas gotas de sangre junto a la cabeza del cadáver llaman su atención y decide llamar a la policía, de esta manera el caso queda en manos del comisario Brunetti. El informe forense determina que la mujer tuvo un ataque cardíaco, pero hay lige...

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 Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where sh...

EDICIÓN DEL AÑO 2003 BOLSILLO. El Acqua alta, es el momento en que la marea inunda las calles de Venecia, y es en esta época cuando Brett Lynch, una arqueóloga americana, es golpeada salvajemente en el portal de su casa. El melancólico comisario Guido Brunetti tendrá que enfrentarse a una trama mafiosa que extiende su red de contrabando en el...

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the body. Then he receives a call promising some tantalizing information.

Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door. Maria has left her nursing convent after the suspicious deaths of five patients. Is she creating fears to justify abandoning her vocation, or is there a more sinister scenario?