検索キーワード： 著者 "Donna Leon" すべてのカテゴリー

Tod vor dem Brennofen. Ist ein Familienzwist zwischen dem Fabrikbesitzer und seinem Schwiegersohn schuld? Oder mußte der Nachtwächter der Glasmanufaktur dafür büßen, daß er ein fanatischer Umweltschützer und Leser ist? In einer Ausgabe von Dantes Inferno entdeckt Brunetti die entscheidende Spur.

Un apasionante caso lleno de actualidad sobre la contaminación y la especulación del suministro de agua en Venecia. Desde la residencia donde pasa sus últimos días postrada en una cama, Benedetta Toso, enferma de cáncer con apenas treinta y ocho años, quiere hablar con Brunetti de algo que no quiere llevarse consigo a la tumba. Débil y al borde de la muerte, la mujer apenas consigue tener algún momento de lucidez y esbozar algunas frases sueltas que implican a su marido, Vittorio Fadalto, muerto recientemente en un accidente de tráfico, con un dinero obtenido de forma ilegal y que, en consecuencia, su muerte fue en realidad un asesinato.

Un compositor olvidado, un crimen rodeado de misterio, dos artistas unidas en un proyecto sin precedentes: Cecilia Bartoli redescubre su música en Mission, Donna Leon novela la historia en Las joyas del Paraíso. Caterina Pellegrini, experta en ópera del Barroco, rastrea la existencia de una valiosa herencia en unos documentos hallados por los descendientes de un genial compositor vinculado a la Iglesia católica. Caterina se adentra en la Venecia de finales del siglo XVII, investigando, sin proponérselo, la supuesta implicación del músico en el crimen más famoso de la época.

¿Y si proteger a tu familia no significase hacer lo correcto? Una mujer atormentada deberá enfrentarse a este dilema en la nueva investigación del comisario Brunetti. Mientras se enfrenta a un problema de posibles filtraciones dentro de la Questura, Brunetti recibe por sorpresa a una amiga de Paola, su mujer, muy preocupada por la extraña actitud de su hijo adolescente. Cuando a medianoche el marido de la amiga aparece inconsciente y con graves daños cerebrales a los pies de un puente de Venecia, Brunetti empieza a pensar que el caso tiene que ver con el comportamiento de su hijo.

¿Y si el amor pusiera en riesgo nuestra propia vida? Brunetti se enfrentará esta vez al conflicto de una herencia que oculta varios crímenes. Venecia: ciudad de riqueza...y de codicia. Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda, originario de España, ha hecho una fortuna como comerciante de arte. Ya retirado, goza de una vida tranquila en Venecia en compañía de su joven amante, al que ha decidido nombrar su heredero. Pero su familia conservadora, que nunca aprobó su estilo de vida permisivo, y sus amigos más cercanos creen que está cometiendo un error.

Als Vittorio Fadalto in einer Sommernacht auf dem Rückweg vom Krankenhaus mit dem Motorrad verunglückt, glauben alle an einen Unfall. Nur nicht seine Frau, die Brunetti um Hilfe bittet. Wollte tatsächlich jemand Fadalto etwas Böses? Oder sind das nur Hirngespinste seiner schwerkranken Frau? Brunetti braucht all seine Intuition - und enthüllt schließlich ein Verbrechen größeren Ausmaßes mit Folgen für die Gewässer des ganzen Veneto.

Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda - ursprünglich aus Spanien stammend - hat im Kunsthandel ein Vermögen gemacht. Nun verbringt er seinen Lebensabend in Venedig. Was kommt dann? Soll die rigide Familie, die mit seinem freizügigen Lebenswandel noch nie einverstanden war, seine Schätze erben? Oder wer ist der Auserwählte? Brunettis Schwiegervater fürchtet, seinem Freund Gonzalo könne Übles zustoßen. Der Commissario soll helfen - und verläuft sich beinahe in den Abgründen des menschlichen Herzens.

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter shares her fear with Brunetti that he will actually hurt her husband.

As Donna Leon's many fans have come to expect, beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment, the authorities suspect her maid. But when the maid meets an untimely end trying to escape from border police, and it appears that the money she carried may not have been stolen, Commissario Guido Brunetti decides, unofficially, to take the case on himself.

This novel sees police secretary Signorina Elettra drawn into danger, as she volunteers to go undercover among the clam fishermen of the Venetian Lagoon. And Commissario Brunetti finds himself torn between duty and his feelings for her.

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 in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student.

In Uniform Justice, a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivalled 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.

Brunetti's investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life, drug abuse and loan-sharking, while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.

But once Brunetti begins investigating this Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the immigrant society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. How far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice's illegal community?

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.

As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would become the sole heir to Gonzalo’s substantial fortune, something which Gonzalo’s friends, including the Count, find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why they're so intent on meddling in the old man's business.

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.

Donna Leon’s memoir, Wandering through Life, gave her legions of fans a colorful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love of Venice and opera. Nowhere, however, did she discuss her writing life. In Backstage, Donna reveals her admiration for, and inspiration from, the great crime novelists Ruth Rendell and Ross MacDonald, examining their approach to storytelling as she dissects her favorite books of theirs. She expresses her love for Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and her appreciation for Sir Walter Scott’s generosity of spirit.

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.