Donna Leon

'Crime writing of the highest order' GUARDIAN'Donna Leon has been giving unto us for all of the thirty years since Death at La Fenice introduced us to Brunetti' Val McDermidThe gifted Venetian detective returns in his 31st case - this time, investigating the Janus-faced nature of yet another Italian institution. Brunetti will have to once again face the blurred line that runs between the criminal and the non-criminal, bending police rules, and his own character, to help an acquaintance in danger.'Both tremendously enjoyable and deeply humane' JESSIE GREENGRASS, Costa-shortlisted author of The High House'Leon's elegant, witty prose . . . is a joy' AMANDA CRAIG

Äntligen är en ny Brunetti-deckare här! En svårlöst mordgåta leder kommissarie Brunetti bort från välkända Venedig, till dunkla och farliga omgivningar. En illa åtgången kropp hittas flytande i en av Venedigs kanaler. Allt tyder på att mannen mördats men ingen vet vem han är. Ansiktet är vanställt, id-handlingar saknas och ingen i trakten har rapporterats försvunnen. Trots det har Brunetti en vag känsla av att mannen är bekant. Obduktionen visar att mordoffret led av en ovanlig sjukdom och utredningen för polisen till ett slakthus på fastlandet. Brunetti finner sig i en ljusskygg värld präglad av utpressning och korruption, och den är allt annat än ofarlig att beträda ...

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters. What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Foscarini's son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he's involved with. Since Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti logically suspects the cause of danger is related to the finances of a client. Yet his clients seem benign: an optician, a restaurateur, a charity established by his father-in-law. However, when his friend's daughter's place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favors--that his colleagues Claudia Griffoni, Lorenzo Vianello, and Signorina Elettra Zorzi assist his private investigation, which soon enough turns official as they uncover the dark and Janus-faced nature of a venerable Italian institution. Exploring the wobbly line between the criminal and non-criminal, revealing previously untold elements of Brunetti's past, Give Unto Others shows that the price of reciprocity can be steep.

In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called "an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event," Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crimeIn 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 city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he 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 behavior 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 rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime 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 organized. Donna Leon's Transient Desires is as powerful as any novel she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth.

Huippusuositun dekkarisarjan uusin osa näyttää tunnelmallisen Venetsian pimeän puolen. Venetsialaisessa sairaalassa kuolemaisillaan oleva nainen osoittaa viimeiset sanansa komisario Guido Brunettille, joka lupaa ottaa naisen perhettä kohdanneen tragedian tutkittavakseen. Kuolinvuoteella saatu vihje johdattaa Brunettin monimutkaisen vyyhdin keskelle. Pian selviää, että koko Venetsia saattaa olla vaarassa. Donna Leon on rakastettavien henkilöhahmojen ja vivahteikkaan kerronnan mestari, jonka uusin rikosromaani haastaa lukijan jälleen pohtimaan käsityksiään oikeudesta, kostosta ja syyllisyydestä.

Vanhan miehen kuolema vaikuttaa luonnolliselta, mutta kun sitä seuraa murha, komisario Brunettin epäilykset heräävät. Brunettin appiukon paras ystävä Gonzalo on adoptoimassa nuoren miehen, josta on tulossa hänen suuren omaisuutensa perijä. Ikämiehen kauhistunut lähipiiri tekee kaikkensa estääkseen hankkeen, mutta kuolema ehtii ensin. Kun Gonzalon hautajaisia suunnittelemaan saapunut uskottu ystävä löytyy hotellihuoneestaan kuristettuna, Brunettikin kiinnostuu Gonzalon menneisyydestä. Mitä salaisuuksia vanhus kantoi, ja kuka on valmis murhaamaan, jotta ne eivät koskaan paljastuisi?

Luchshij detektivnyj avtor po versii The New York Times Poklonniki obozhali primu Flaviju Petrelli, voskhischalis ee bozhestvennym golosom. No bolshe vsekh Flaviju ljubil nekto, stavshij ee nochnym koshmarom. Posle kazhdogo kontserta tajnyj obozhatel zavalival grimerku primy buketami zheltykh roz. On kral ee perchatki i drugie damskie melochi... Fanatskaja navjazchivost pererosla v maniju. Napadenie na moloduju pevitsu Franchesku, blizkuju prime, stalo pervym preduprezhdeniem ob opasnosti. Detektiv Gvido Brunetti, staryj znakomyj primy, reshaet ej pomoch. On uveren, chto legko vychislit obezumevshego poklonnika, tak silno zhazhduschego ljubvi i vnimanija pevitsy. Poiski zastavljajut detektiva izuchit proshloe Flavii. Kogda-to davno ee otkaz zapustil "printsip domino". Kostjashki padajut odna za drugoj, neumolimo priblizhajas k poslednemu zvenu - Flavii. I esli ne ostanovit ikh, lepestki zheltykh roz pokrojut ne stsenu, a nadgrobe primy... Perevodchik: Chistjukhina Natalija

'The series that has shadowed Brunetti for three decades is an epic achievement' The TimesChosen as Star Pick in the Sunday Times Crime ClubChosen as a 'Best New Crime Novel' in the Sunday Times _____________________________________________ 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. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues only adds to the difficulty of solving this peculiarly horrible crime. Donna Leon's landmark thirtieth Brunetti novel is as powerful as any she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits, forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth. ______________________________________________ 'Leon's books are a joy' Guardian'She is a truly fine novelist, period, and should be acclaimed as such.' TLS

Äntligen är en ny Brunetti-deckare här! En svårlöst mordgåta leder kommissarie Brunetti bort från välkända Venedig, till dunkla och farliga omgivningar. En illa åtgången kropp hittas flytande i en av Venedigs kanaler. Allt tyder på att mannen mördats men ingen vet vem han är. Ansiktet är vanställt, id-handlingar saknas och ingen i trakten har rapporterats försvunnen. Trots det har Brunetti en vag känsla av att mannen är bekant. Obduktionen visar att mordoffret led av en ovanlig sjukdom och utredningen för polisen till ett slakthus på fastlandet. Brunetti finner sig i en ljusskygg värld präglad av utpressning och korruption, och den är allt annat än ofarlig att beträda ...

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.