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.
Komisař Brunetti Série
Tato detektivní série sleduje komisaře Guida Brunettiho, který vyšetřuje zločiny v Benátkách. Příběhy se zaměřují na jeho osobní a profesní život, odhalují korupci a sociální problémy v italské společnosti. Série je známá svým realistickým zobrazením vyšetřování a atmosférou města, které se stává téměř dalším protagonistou příběhu. Každý díl přináší nové případy a morální dilemata, která Brunettiho nutí přehodnotit hodnoty a spravedlnost.
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Smrt v kalné vodě
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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
Roucho smrti
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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.
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?
Vražda v muzeu
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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?
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?
A noble radiance
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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 start, disturbs a macabre grave, and Commissario Brunetti is called in.
Fatal Remedies
- 240 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building. But soon Brunetti finds that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.
Friends In High Places
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When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department.
A Sea of Troubles
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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 ...
Wilful Behaviour
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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.
Uniform Justice
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For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In "Uniform Justice," a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Veniceas elite military academy. Brunettias sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than with finding the truth. The young manas father is a doctor and former politician. He is a man of an impeccable integrity who inexplicably avoids talking to the police. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?
When the body of a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, it is soon clear to the police that the prime suspect is her Rumanian maid, who has disappeared and is heading for Rumania. When the woman is approached by the border police as her train is leaving Italy, she makes a run for it and is killed as she crosses the tracks in front of an oncoming train. She has a considerable sum of money on her and her papers are obvious forgeries. Case closed. But when the old woman's neighbour returns from a business trip to London, it becomes clear the maid could not have had time to kill the old woman before catching her train, and that the money on her was not stolen. Commissario Brunetti decides - unofficially - to take the case on himself. As Brunetti learns more of the old woman's family, he sees that this is probably not a crime motivated by Greed, rather that the probable motive connects with the temptations of Lust. But perhaps Brunetti is following a faalse trail and thinking of the wrong Deadly Sin altogether...
Blood from a stone
- 355 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
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...
Through a Glass, Darkly
- 256 stránek
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Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive island of Murano, home of the world-famous glass factories. On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky from the Questura in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has been heard in the bars of Murano making violent threats about Ribetti. Brunetti's curiosity is piqued, and he finds himself drawn to Murano to investigate. Is De Cal the type of man to carry out his threats? Then one morning the body of De Cal's night watchman is found. Over long lunches, on secret boat rides, in quiet bars, and down narrow streets, Brunetti searches for the killer. Will he unravel the clues before the night watchman's death is allowed to be forgotten?A fascinating novel set in the intersection between tourism and native Venetian society, Through a Glass, Darkly is Donna Leon at her finest.
Suffer the Little Children
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
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?.
The Girl of His Dreams
- 326 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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.
Schöner Schein
- 344 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
"In About Face, Guido Brunetti and his wife, Paola, are on their way to a dinner party at Palazzo Falier, home of Paola's parents, the rich and powerful Conte and Contessa Falier, While Paola stops to examine a bookstore window, Brunetti's eye is caught by a couple ahead of them in the nearly deserted streets; a woman in an impossibly expensive fur coat on the arm of a much older man. He is intrigued when they turn out to be fellow dinner guests, and even more so when he sees the woman's face, which has been disfigured by excessive plastic surgery. She is Franca Marinello, La Superliftata, whom he's heard of but never met." "This intelligent, mysterious woman entrances Brunetti. When she visits him later at the Questura and asks a favor, he is troubled. Her request seems to land near his investigation into a suspicious death that looks like murder, and the illegal hauling of garbage. In Italy, the environment has reached a crisis. Incinerators across the south are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what, the polluted waters of Venice's canals sit in the shadow of a major chemical complex, and in Naples, enormous piles of garbage grow in the streets." As Brunetti delves into this shadowy, toxic world, he comes face to face with violence as dangerous as he's ever seen, and corruption that touches on his influential father-in-law, as well as the fascinating Franca Marinello.
As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti escapes the city to spend time with his family. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind. It appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the Courthouse involving a judge and an usher with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elettra to find out what she can while he's away. When news reaches Brunetti that the usher from the Courthouse has been viciously murdered, he returns to investigate. But why would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to do with the Courthouse discrepancies?
Drawing Conclusions
- 260 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene.
Beastly things
- 296 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end. It doesn't take long for Brunetti to realise why he remembers the dead man - he saw him at a demonstration a couple of years ago, where farmers were protesting about European milk quotas. But what was his involvement with the protest, and could it have anything to do with his murder? Having nothing to go on but the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and a disease that had left his body strangely deformed, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to try and discover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse at Preganziol, on the mainland. It is there that Brunetti discovers the dead man's connection with the slaughterhouse, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it. With a gripping case set before a harrowing exploration of the meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a dark and compelling addition to the Brunetti series.
"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
- 304 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
The multiple award-winning Leon has lost none of her talent for weaving intrigue, and the atmosphere of Venice is as beguiling as ever. Living North
Falling In Love
- 272 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
In Death at La Fenice , Donna Leon’s first novel in the beloved Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli, who became the prime suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca . As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers. But when one fan inundates her with bouquets of yellow roses – on stage, in her dressing room and even inside her locked apartment – it becomes clear that Flavia has an anonymous stalker on her hands. Distraught and horrified, she turns to an old friend for help. In steps Commissario Brunetti. Familiar with Flavia’s melodramatic temperament, he is at first unperturbed by her story, only realising the situation is more threatening when another young opera singer is attacked. Desperate to keep Flavia out of danger, Brunetti is determined to find the culprit before more harm is done.
The Waters of Eternal Youth
- 304 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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.
Schwächeanfall in der Questura. Das Räderwerk des Alltags hat Brunetti zermürbt. Krankgeschrieben, soll sich der Commissario in der Lagune von Venedig erholen. Wie wunderbar, einmal nicht Verbrechern hinterherzujagen, sondern in ländlicher Idylle seine Gedanken mit den Wolken ziehen zu lassen! Doch zwischen Bienen und Blumen kommt er einem größeren Fall als je zuvor auf die Spur.
The Temptation of Forgiveness
- 300 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
In Donna Leon's 27th mystery novel, Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates a suspicious accident, revealing a long-standing scam with unsettling repercussions.
Unto us a son is given
- 272 stránek
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In the 28th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Brunetti's father-in-law, the Count Falier, urges Brunetti to investigate and intervene in the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would become heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. Not long after Gonzalo unexpectedly passes away, one of Gonzalo's oldest friends, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti is drawn reluctantly into the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly follows the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.[Bokinfo]
Trace Elements
- 272 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
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
Transient Desires
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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.
Give Unto Others
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
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.
Související knihy
Die Calli, Campi und Caffès, die Brunetti frequentiert, zu Touren verbunden: Zwölf von Toni Sepeda entwickelte und erprobte Spaziergänge und ein Ausflug in die Lagune erschließen die Welt des Commissario. Und der kennt Venedig wie kein anderer: Reich und Arm, heute und früher, bei Tag und bei Nacht.
Bei den Brunettis zu Gast
Rezepte von Roberta Pianaro und kulinarische Geschichten von Donna Leon
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Köstliches mit und ohne Kalorien: 91 Rezepte, wie sie Paola in den Brunetti-Romanen kocht, aufgezeichnet von Donna Leons Freundin und Lieblingsköchin Roberta Pianaro. Als kalorienfreier Zwischengang sechs kulinarische Geschichten von Donna Leon sowie wunderschöne Vignetten von Tatjana Hauptmann.
Warum lieben Leser allerorten Brunetti wie einen Freund, mit dem man durch dick und dünn gegangen ist? Wohl weil er ebenso Philosoph ist wie Polizist. Unermüdlich versucht er seine Mitmenschen zu verstehen. Als Italiener, Genießer und Familienmensch glaubt er an das gute Leben, trotz aller Widernisse und Schurken um uns her. Dieses Buch versammelt die besten Gedanken des bekanntesten, klügsten und sympathischsten Commissario: ein abc der Lebenskunst.
So Shall You Reap
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On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information- gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a garden house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim's interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s. As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signorina Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle-random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships-that appear to have little in common. Until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.
