Tato autorka je známá svými detektivními romány zasazenými do malebného prostředí Benátek. Jejich prostřednictvím zkoumá složité lidské vztahy a často se dotýká etických dilemat. Její styl je vytříbený a plný atmosféry, která čtenáře vtáhne do děje.
Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando- Continui. Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal. Manuela, now aged thirty, cannot remember the accident. The Contessa, unconvinced that this was an accident, implores Brunetti to find the culprit.
Případ pro komisaře Brunettiho! Oblíbenému hrdinovi, známému z televizního zpracování, tentokrát zamotá hlavu záhadná vražda v muzeu. Postupným odhalením pavučiny motivů je vtažen do nebezpečného světa mafie a obchodu se starožitnostmi či jejich padělky. Podaří se Brunettimu usvědčit všechny zločince?
Případ pro komisaře Brunettiho! Oblíbenému hrdinovi, známému z televizního zpracování, tentokrát zamotá hlavu série záhadných vražd úspěšných podnikatelů. Postupným odhalením pavučiny motivů je vtažen do děsivého světa organizovaného zločinu. Dokáže odkrýt masky benátských vrahů?
Komisař Brunetti vyšetřuje v letních Benátkách složitý případ vraždy, který ho dovede až do podsvětí. Nedaleko jatek je nalezena mrtvola v dámských šatech a nápadných rudých lodičkách, ze které se vyklube muž, identifikovaný jako dosud vážený a bezúhonný bankovní ředitel. Policisté v čele s komisařem Brunettim pátrají nejdříve v blízkosti transvestitů a prostitutů, ukáže se však, že problém bude složitější a souvisí s penězi, černými nájmy a zneužitím úřední moci. Pachatel je nakonec nalezen v kruzích, kde by to opravdu nikdo nečekal. Příjemná detektivka, v níž se již po třetí setkáváme se sympatickým komisařem i jeho rodinou, tentokrát v Benátkách rozpálených horkým srpnovým sluncem.
Detektivní příběh z italských Benátek, ve kterém se místní komisař snaží vyřešit záhadnou vraždu amerického vojáka. Komisaře Brunettiho jednoho časného rána vzbudí telefon oznamující nález mrtvoly ve vodě benátského kanálu. Ukáže se, že se jedná o vojáka z americké základny ve Vicenze. Brunetti je tlačen svým nadřízeným, aby případ co nejrychleji uzavřel. Následují však další záhadná úmrtí a komisař se snaží polapit pravého viníka toho všeho, i kdyby se mělo jednat o vysoce postavenou osobu.... celý text
Napínavý detektivní román světově proslulé autorky Donny Leon je jejím prvním dílem, přeloženým do češtiny. Komisař městské policie Guido Brunetti řeší případ vraždy světově proslulého dirigenta, ke které došlo v průběhu operního představení v Benátské opeře.
This engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series showcases her delightful humor and irony. In her memoir, she previously offered a colorful tour of her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, and her love of Venice and opera, but did not delve into her writing life. In this work, she reveals her admiration for great crime novelists like Ruth Rendell and Ross Macdonald, examining their storytelling techniques while dissecting her favorite books. She expresses her love for Dickens' *Great Expectations* and appreciates Sir Walter Scott's generosity of spirit. The author chronicles her extensive research efforts to authentically portray places and characters through Guido Brunetti and his colleagues, including interviewing a diamond dealer in Venice about blood diamonds and connecting with a courageous sex worker to accurately depict women's trafficking in Italy. Venice remains central in her memories, from the irritation of a noisy neighbor to the origins of Carnevale. Her teaching career yields memorable tales, such as helping a young Black boy in Newark and instructing Iranian pilots just before the 1979 Revolution. Throughout, she proves to be as compelling a storyteller about her own life as she is in chronicling Brunetti's adventures. Readers will find themselves captivated by her world.
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...
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti's home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead. As subtle and engrossing as ever, Leon's Beastly Things is immensely enjoyable, intriguing, and ultimately moving.
The fifth mystery in Camilleri's atmospheric, compelling and savagely funny crime series Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything...there was even a copy of the certificate of living existence, that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility...What was the protocol, to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence, sign it, and turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal New Mafia, which leads him down a path more evil and more far-reaching than any he has been down before.
