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La aparición de dos chicas jóvenes inconscientes y con heridas graves a la entrada del Hospital Civil de Venecia pone a Brunetti y Griffoni tras la pista de dos jóvenes venecianos que podrían haber incurrido en un delito de omisión del deber de socorro. Se trata de Marcelo Vio y Filiberto Duso, dos amigos desde la infancia, muy diferentes entre sí: Duso trabaja como abogado para la firma de su padre, mientras Vio dejó de estudiar de niño y se gana la vida trabajando para su tío, que tiene un negocio de transporte de mercancías y una pequeña flota de barcas.

Pero lo que en un principio parecía una travesura de dos jóvenes que solo querían pasarlo bien, destapará algo mucho más grave: una conexión con la mafia de tráfico ilegal de personas encargada de traer hasta Venecia a inmigrantes africanos. Brunetti y Griffoni tendrán que unir fuerzas con un nuevo aliado, el capitán Ignazio Alaimo, el oficial encargado de la Capitaneria di Porto, que lleva años siguiendo la pista de los traficantes.

В горах на границе Италии и Австрии срывается в пропасть румынский трейлер, среди обломков которого обнаруживаются трупы неизвестных женщин. На венецианском вокзале Санта-Лючия в купе междугородного поезда найден мертвым известный адвокат по международному праву…Какая может быть связь между этими двумя трагедиями? Комиссар Брунетти находит разгадку в грязном баре – центре преступной сети, простирающейся далеко за пределы Италии. Но должно произойти еще одно убийство, чтобы правосудие начало действовать.

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow students.
The young man is the son of an ex-politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. But as Brunetti - and the indispensable Signorina Elettra - investigate further, no one seems willing to talk, as the military protects its own and civilians keep their own counsel. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?

When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers, the maid runs into the path of an oncoming train and is killed. Case closed. But when the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, it becomes clear that the maid could not have been the killer. Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself. As Brunetti investigates, it becomes clear that the motive for the murder was unlikely to have been greed, rather that it had its roots in the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of the wrong deadly sin altogether...

On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice's Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest 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 among them is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that…

На фабричном пустыре в Местре, в промышленном пригороде Венеции, полицейский находит обезображенный труп мужчины в нарочито броском женском наряде. Ясно, что это убийство, и кажется очевидным, что убитый – проститутка-трансвестит. Но, расследуя это преступление, уже знакомый читателю комиссар венецианской полиции Гвидо Брунетти понимает, что все далеко не так, как представляется на первый взгляд. Фоном для напряженного сюжета служит с нежностью выписанная Венеция во всех подробностях своей экзотической и такой, в сущности, уютной жизни.

It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello take a break from the Questura to come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon. But it is not Marco who has uncovered the guilty secret of the polluting glass foundries of the island of Murano, nor he whose body is found dead in front of the furnaces which burn at 1,400 degrees, night and day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante, and Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is fouling the waters of the lagoon.

The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli's apartment, fracture his skull and grab his eighteen-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti, pulled from his bed by the news, arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent pediatrician has suffered such a violent assault.

But soon Brunetti begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and an underworld where babies can be bought for cash - linked with a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And knowledge can be as destructive as greed - certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain.

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 people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress.

Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to uncover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse on the mainland, where they discover the origin of the crime, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it.

Both a gripping case and a harrowing exploration of the dark side of Italy's meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series.


Andrew Sachs is well known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers. From a solid background in theatre, his work also covers TV, films and radio. His voice is often heard narrating documentaries and reading innumerable audiobooks. He has narrated several other Donna Leon titles.

Herzversagen – das diagnostiziert der penible Pathologe Rizzardi beim Tod von Signora Altavilla. Kein Fall für Brunetti mithin? Der Commissario traut dem Frieden nicht. Wer sucht, der findet …

Ein Mädchen treibt tot im Canal Grande und wird von niemandem vermisst. Brunetti aber geht die Elfjährige bis in die Träume nach. Aus einem venezianischen Palazzo kommt sie nicht, wohl aber aus einer Roma-Wagenburg auf dem Festland...

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, he thinks little of it, despite being intrigued by the girl's intelligence and moral conscience. But when the girl is found stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is no longer Paola's student, but instead becomes Brunetti's case. Claudia seemed to have no discernible living family, but lived with an elderly Austrian woman. Brunetti is stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps, and when she in turn is found dead, the case begins to unlock long buried secrets of collaboration during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore.

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her...

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. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work.

Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti is shipped off by his wife, Paola, to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History.

The recuperative stay goes according to plan and Brunetti is finally able to relax, until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Nobody can find him – not his daughter, not his friends, and not the woman he’d been secretly visiting. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his holiday and discover what happened to the man who had recently become his friend.

In Earthly Remains, Donna Leon shows Venice through an insider’s eyes. From family meals and vaporetti rides to the never-ending influx of tourists and suffocating political corruption, the details and rhythms of everyday Venetian life are at the core of this thrilling novel, and of the terrible crime at its heart.

Venedig kann sehr heiß sein: Im Sommer fliehen die Venezianer aus der stickigen Lagunenstadt. Doch aus Ferien in den kühlen Bergen wird für Commissario Brunetti nichts. Dafür sorgen eine Leiche und dubiose Machenschaften am Tribunale.

Знаменитый немецкий оперный дирижер выпивает в антракте спектакля напиток с подмешанным туда ядом. Расследовать преступление поручают комиссару Гвидо Брунетти. Пока Брунетти подбирает ключи к разгадке тайны, перед читателем разворачивается картина порока и возмездия, заставляющая его выбирать между тем, что принято считать справедливым, и тем, что действительно справедливо, и задаваться вопросом: что может предпринять закон и что он должен предпринять?

В Венеции совершается акт вандализма, причем виновница, и не подумавшая скрыться с места преступления, оказывается не кем иным, как женой комиссара Брунетти. Необъяснимый поступок Паолы вносит разлад в семью комиссара, между тем на работе его донимает шеф, требуя немедленного раскрытия дерзкого ограбления и связанной с ним подозрительной смерти. Это столкновение профессиональной и личной жизни ставит под угрозу карьеру Брунетти, а секреты Паолы, которые она, рискуя всем, не желает открывать, приводят его на край пропасти…

Поклонники обожали приму Флавию Петрелли, восхищались ее божественным голосом. Но больше всех Флавию любил некто, ставший ее ночным кошмаром. После каждого концерта тайный обожатель заваливал гримерку примы букетами желтых роз. Он крал ее перчатки и другие дамские мелочи... Фанатская навязчивость переросла в манию. Нападение на молодую певицу Франческу, близкую приме, стало первым предупреждением об опасности. Детектив Гвидо Брунетти, старый знакомый примы, решает ей помочь. Он уверен, что легко вычислит обезумевшего поклонника, так сильно жаждущего любви и внимания певицы. Поиски заставляют детектива изучить прошлое Флавии. Когда-то давно ее отказ запустил «принцип домино». Костяшки падают одна за другой, неумолимо приближаясь к последнему звену — Флавии. И если не остановить их, лепестки желтых роз покроют не сцену, а надгробье примы...

Библиотеку Мерула потрясает тревожное известие: американский ученый Никерсон вырезал и унес несколько десятков страниц из редчайших фолиантов XVI века. Детектив Брунетти выясняет, что помимо Никерсона в читальном зале находился лишь священник Альдо Франчини. Этот завсегдатай библиотеки, человек, который буквально жил книгами, — единственный, кто может пролить свет на эту темную историю. Брунетти решает поговорить с Франчини. Но священника находят мертвым. А в американском университете утверждают, что никакого доктора Никерсона не существует…

When Donna Leon, the acclaimed author of the best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, she is listening to opera. Over the years, Leon has noticed that her favourite composer, George Frideric Handel, filled his operas with arias that make reference to animals; rich in symbolism, the perceived virtues and vices of the lion, bee, nightingale, snake, elephant, and tiger, among others, resonate in his works.

In Handel's Bestiary, Leon draws on her love of Handel and her expertise in medieval bestiaries-illustrated collections of animal stories-to assemble a bestiary of her own. Twelve chapters trace twelve animals through history, mythology, and the arias. Each is joined by whimsical original illustrations by German painter Michael Sowa. The accompanying CD includes each aria, expertly recorded by Il Complesso Barocco, Karina Gauvin, Ann Hallenberg, Paul Agnew, and Anicio Zorzi, with Alan Curtis conducting. Fascinating and utterly original, Handel's Bestiary springs to life with Leon's knowledge and wit.