Trovati 21 documenti.
Blood from a stone / Donna Leon
London : Arrow books, 2006
Titolo e contributi: Blood from a stone / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 355 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0099474182
Data:2006
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
London : Arrow books, 2019
Titolo e contributi: Unto us a son is given
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2019
Descrizione fisica: 259 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781787463196
Data:2019
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
Transient desires / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Transient desires / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2021
Descrizione fisica: 272 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785152443
Data:2021
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Commissario Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behaviour of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it? As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumoured to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organised.
London : Arrow books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Trace elements
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 278 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781787465121
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patient gasps these cryptic words about her recently-deceased husband, who lost his life in a motorcycle accident. But what appears to be a private family tragedy turns into a bigger enigma when Brunetti discover the victim's ties to Venice's water supply. With the help of a Questura secretery, Elettra Sorzi, Brunetti will unveil the secret that lies behind the dying woman's accusation - one that threatens the health of the entire region.
The waters of eternal youth / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2016
Titolo e contributi: The waters of eternal youth / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2016
Descrizione fisica: 292 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785150753
Data:2016
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti’s mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessa’s teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal. She was rescued from the canal at the last moment, but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage and her life was never the same again. Once a passionate horse rider, Manuela, now aged thirty, cannot remember the accident, or her beloved horse, and lives trapped in an eternal youth.
Transient desires / Donna Leon
London : Penguin books, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Transient desires / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2021
Descrizione fisica: 272 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781787467842
Data:2021
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When two young American women are badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in Venice's Laguna with two young Italians, Commissario Guido Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behaviour of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumoured to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia Costiera.
London : William Heinemann, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Give unto others / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 295 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529151619
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
London : Arrow, 2003
Titolo e contributi: Wilful behaviour / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow, 2003
Descrizione fisica: 356 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0099415186
Data:2003
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The temptations of forgiveness / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2018
Titolo e contributi: The temptations of forgiveness / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2018
Descrizione fisica: 292 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785151965
Data:2018
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife’s, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman’s husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge, and Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy’s behaviour. But the truth is not straightforward.
So shall you reap / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2023
Titolo e contributi: So shall you reap / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 262 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529153323
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
London : Arrow, 1999
Titolo e contributi: A noble radiance / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow, 1999
Descrizione fisica: 289 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0099269295
Data:1999
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024
Titolo e contributi: A refiner's fire / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 274 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529154375
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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 this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all. This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti’s colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti’s attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte’s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.
London : Heinemann, 1999
Titolo e contributi: Fatal remedies / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Heinemann, 1999
Descrizione fisica: [8], 232 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 0434004197
Data:1999
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : William Heinemann, 2016
Titolo e contributi: Earthly remains / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2016
Descrizione fisica: 308 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785151378
Data:2016
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
Suffer the little children / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2007
Titolo e contributi: Suffer the little children / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2007
Descrizione fisica: [8], 264 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780434016259
Data:2007
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Friends in high places / Donna Leon
London : Arrow books, 2000
Titolo e contributi: Friends in high places / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2000
Descrizione fisica: [10], 326 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0099269325
Data:2000
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
So shall you reap / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2023
Titolo e contributi: So shall you reap / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 262 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529153323
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
London : Arrow books, 2010
Titolo e contributi: About face / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 311 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780099547327
Data:2010
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Heinemann, 2014
Titolo e contributi: By its cover / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : Heinemann, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 237 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780434023035
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : William Heinemann, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Trace elements / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 278 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785152443
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 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.
