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A Noble Radiance: (Brunetti 7) by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Brunetti
In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades. But the new owner, keen for renovations to begin, is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave. Wild animals have done their grisly work and the hum ...Show more
A Question of Belief (Brunetti #19) by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Brunetti Ser.
"As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. However, the weather is the last thing on Ispettore Vianello s mind; it seems his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amou ...Show more
A Refiner's Fire (#33 Brunetti) by Donna Leon
37.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet ...Show more
About Face by Donna Leon
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her Signora Marinello's love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Br ...Show more
About Face #18 Brunetti by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Brunetti
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 ...Show more
Beastly Things #21 Brunetti by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Commissario Brunetti
When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely 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 peopl ...Show more
Blood From A Stone by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Blood From A Stone by Donna Leon
36.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomuni ...Show more
By Its Cover #23 Brunetti by Donna Leon
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: A\Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
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 antiquar ...Show more
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
59.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death... but none so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer. The beauty of Venice is crumbling. But evil is one thing that w ...Show more
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
22.95 NZD
24.95 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
The very first Donna Leon mystery, introducing Commissario Brunetti. Venice's canals have always been shrouded in mystery. But when the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, is the scene of a murder the Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, has to step behind the lights into the bitchy world of opera t ...Show more
Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon
22.95 NZD
24.99 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
Early one morning Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venetian police, confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of the fetid Venetian canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti robbery seems altogether too convenient a motive. Then something very incrimin ...Show more