Guido Brunetti

Les amateurs d'opéra sont réunis à la fenice de Venise où ce soir-là, Wellauer, le célébrissime chef d'orchestre allemand, dirige La Traviata. La sonnerie annonçant la fin de l'entracte retentit, les spectateurs regagnent leur place, les musiciens s'installent, les brouhahas cessent, tout le monde attend le retour du maestro. Les minutes passent, le silence devient pesant, Wellauer n'est toujours pas là ... il gît dans sa loge, mort. Le commissaire Guido Brunetti, aussitôt dépêché sur les lieux, conclut rapidement à un empoisonnement au cyanure. Le très respecté musicien avait-il des ennemis? Dans les coulisses de l'opéra, Guido Brunetti découvre l'envers du décor

The second novel to feature Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice Police. Brunetti confronts the grisly sight of the body of an American soldier in a canal. He becomes suspicious and discovers toxic waste-dumping and a high-level cover-up that extends from the Mafia to the US Army.

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of 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 unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling and apparently senseless death...

Le cadavre du célèbre avocat vénitien Carlo Trevisan est retrouvé dans un train et c'est, bien sûr, le commissaire Brunetti qui est chargé de mener l'enquête. Arpentant les quartiers malfamés de Venise, il tombe sur la piste d'un trafic international de prostitution et 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. On retrouve l'univers attachant de son héros, fin limier en lutte contre les citoyens d'une ville dont le sens moral semble se détériorer plus vite que les palaces. Meurtres et corruption, argent sale et troubles implications de l'élite vénitienne sont au rendez-vous de ce roman au suspense savamment entretenu. [Source : 4e de couverture]

Als die amerikanische Archäologin Brett Lynch im Flur ihrer Wohnung n Venedig von zwei Männern zusammengeschlagen wird, regt sich außer Brunetti kaum jemand auf. Schließlich ist Lynch nicht nur Ausländerin, sondern wie es heißt, auch noch Frauen mehr als Männern zugetan und mit einer Operndiva liiert. Als zwei Tage später jedoch der renommierte Museumsdirektor Dottor Semenzato ermordet aufgefunden wird, ist ganz Venedig entsetzt. Brunetti will beide Fälle mit der ihm eigenen Hartnäckigkeit aufklären - zumal die Betroffene Brett Lynch und ihre Freundin Flavia Petrelli ihm nahestehen seit jenem Abend in der Oper, der für den Dirigenten Wellauer zu seinem VENEZIANISCHEN FINALE wurde. Brunetti geht der Sache nach - und nicht nur die Spannung steigt, sondern auch der Wasserpegel.

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?

Un cadavre décomposé est découvert dans les environs de Venise. Seule sa chevalière permet de l'identifier : il s'agit d'un jeune homme d'une vingtaine d'années, Roberto Lorenzoni, fils d'une des plus grandes familles vénitiennes, kidnappé deux ans plus tôt et jamais retrouvé. Chargé de rouvrir l'enquête, le commissaire Brunetti aura besoin de l'appui de sa noble belle-famille pour s'introduire au cœur de l'aristocratie italienne où, noblesse oblige, les secrets sont bien gardés...

Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly wrong, something with far greater implications than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into the unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts, and the arrest and release of a suspected drug dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have 'Friends in High Places'.

From the acclaimed author of The Waters of Eternal Youth, Commissario Guido Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating eleventh case. 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.

When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself.

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label - but they have seen nothing that might be of much help to the police. When Commissario Brunetti arrives on the scene, he finds it hard to understand why anyone would murder an illegal immigrant. They have few social connections and little money; in-fighting is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins investigating this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake in the immigrant community...

Par un beau jour de printemps à Venise, le commissaire Brunetti et son adjoint Vianello font libérer Ribetti, un ami de Vianello qui s'est fait bêtement coffrer lors d'une manifestation écologiste contre la pollution des eaux de la lagune. À sa sortie de prison, Ribetti est violemment pris à partie par son beau-père, propriétaire d'une des verreries de l'île de Murano. Hors de lui, le vieil homme profère des menaces de mort à l'encontre de son gendre. Pourtant, le cadavre qu'on retrouve quelques jours plus tard est celui du gardien de l'usine. L'homme avait auprès de lui une copie de L'Enfer de Dante... Il collectionnait les petits carnets sur lesquels il inscrivait des notes codées... Et il était obsédé par la pollution des eaux de la lagune qui, selon lui, avait causé le handicap mental de sa petite fille. Sa croisade l'aurait-elle amené à découvrir des secrets qu'aucun des grands verriers de Murano ne souhaitait voir exposés? Si un homme est mort pour avoir dit la vérité, ne déploiera-t-on pas les mêmes forces pour faire taire Brunetti ? [Source : 4e de couverture]

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his 18-month-old son. What can have motivated such an assault?.

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 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 hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. From the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's paranoid behaviour.Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And why is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past?Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.

In a sweltering Venice, Commissario Brunetti takes a family break while Ispettore Vianello grapples with his aunt's strange obsession with horoscopes and money withdrawals. As Brunetti investigates a murder linked to courthouse discrepancies, he uncovers dark connections that threaten to unravel the truth.

A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead on the floor. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Commissario Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for abused women and that her apartment was a safe-house. Convinced that this is the lead he has been looking for, Brunetti begins his search for answers. But as he sets out to discover the truth behind her death, he is drawn into a decades-old story of lies and deceit that has blighted love and ruined lives - and has claimed this innocent woman as its newest victim. Brunetti's investigation takes him deep into the dark heart of his beloved Venice.

"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. This internationally acclaimed, bestselling series is widely considered one of the best ever written, and William Heinemann is thrilled to be publishing the twenty-second installment, The Golden Egg, in April 2013. When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor a humiliation Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Brunetti s dry cleaners has been found dead an accidental overdose of his mother s sleeping pills and for some reason Paola is distraught by the news. To the

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. The staff suspect an American researcher has stolen them, but for Brunetti something doesn't quite add up. Taking on the case, the Commissario begins to seek information about some of the library's regulars, such as the ex-priest Franchini, a passionate reader of ancient Christian literature, and Contessa Morosini-Albani, the library's chief donor, and comes to the conclusion that the thief could not have acted alone. However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn and soon Brunetti finds himself submerged in the dark secrets of the black market of antiquarian books. Alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra, he delves into the pages of Franchini's past and into the mind of a book thief in order to uncover the terrible truth.

Quel triomphe ! Sous une pluie de roses jaunes, la cantatrice Flavia Petrelli est acclamée par le public de La Fenice. Ces roses, la soprano les reconnaît : elle en reçoit par centaines depuis le début de sa tournée. Troublée par ces cadeaux, Flavia craint pour sa sécurité. Surtout lorsqu'une jeune chanteuse est attaquée. Entre passion dévorante et jalousie maladive, le dernier acte s'annonce mortel. Née dans le New Jersey, Donna Leon vit à Venise depuis de nombreuses années. Les enquêtes du commissaire Brunetti, traduites dans vingt-cinq langues, ont séduit des millions de lecteurs. Toutes sont disponibles en Points. " Un moment extraordinaire. " The New York Times Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Gabriella Zimmermann

Elle a quinze ans. Une vie entre Venise et la campagne, où elle aime faire du cheval. Mais une chute dans un canal et son destin bascule : Manuela, qui ne sait pas nager, survit avec de graves séquelles. Un accident ? Effondrée, la comtesse Lando-Continui en doute. Et des années plus tard, elle convainc Brunetti de reprendre l'enquête sur sa petite-fille. Ce qui ne semble pas convenir à tout le monde...

Klappentext zu "Stille Wasser " Während eines Verhörs in der Questura bekommt Brunetti es plötzlich mit dem Herz zu tun. Eilig wird der Commissario ins Ospedale Santi Giovanni e Paolo gebracht. Auch wenn die Schwäche nur fingiert war, um eine schwierige Situation zu retten, merkt der Commissario auf dem Rollbett plötzlich, wie erschöpft er tatsächlich ist. Krankgeschrieben will er sich in der Villa einer Verwandten von Paola erholen. In der Lagune von Venedig verbringt Brunetti herrliche Tage unter den Einheimischen. Er beschäftigt sich mit Rudern und Radfahren, zwischen Bienen und Blumen. Doch die Idylle erweist sich als trügerisch, und Brunettis Gewissen macht keine Ferien. Wenn er nicht im staatlichen Auftrag ermittelt, dann geht er den Dingen eben aus Freundschaft auf den Grund... "Ein faszinierender Fall. (...) Bis zum ergreifenden Ende beschäftigen Brunetti Gedanken über die Natur und darüber, wie sich der Mensch an ihr vergeht. Sowie darüber, was Schuld aus einem Menschen macht." Publishers Weekly

A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. 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. 'They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no', Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta's secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, he reads Aeschylus's classic play The Eumenides. As she has done so often through her memorable characters and storytelling skill, Donna Leon once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences between guilt and responsibility.

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 thirtieth 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. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behaviour of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?

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. But her mother was good to Brunetti's, so he feels he has no choice but to repay the debt and agrees to look into the matter 'privately', rather than as a police official. Her son-in-law has alarmed his wife by telling her they might be in danger because of something he's involved with. Because Enrico Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti suspects that the likely reason must be the finances of one of his clients. Brunetti takes a look and finds little- one client is an optician, another Fenzo`s father-in-law, whom he helped establish a charity, another the owner of a restaurant. He is about to tell his friend that he can find no reason for preoccupation when her daughter's place of work is vandalised, forcing Brunetti to turn his attention - still 'private' - to Elisabetta's own family. What he discovers shows the Janus-faced nature of yet another Italian institution as well as the wobbly line that attempts to differentiate between the criminal and the non-criminal.

Commissario Brunetti wird in eine kalte Novembernacht gerufen, als eine Leiche in einem Kanal gefunden wird. Ohne Papiere bleibt die Polizei ratlos. Brunetti taucht in seine Vergangenheit ein und erkundet das Italien seiner Studentenzeit, um dem Rätsel um die Feinde des Toten auf die Spur zu kommen.