Donna Leon

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unto Us a Son is Given, comes one of her most dark and thrilling mysteries yet. A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. 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.

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 city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in 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 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.

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?

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He discovers that her husband worked for a company that monitored the cleanliness of Veniceâ??s water supply and that he had died in a motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Pattaâ??s obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti turns to the remarkable research skills of Pattaâ??s secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi.

When Dottoressa Donato calls the Venetian Questura, reporting that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Commissario Claudia Griffoni know there is no time to waste. 'They killed him ... Bad money', are some of the sibylline words the patient Benedetta Tosi still manages to tell her visitors about her recently-deceased husband. Although the dying woman probably can't hear him, Brunetti promises to look into the woman's cryptic accusation. As so often happens, what starts as a private tragedy develops into a larger case and eventually a menace to the Veneto. In Donna Leon's superb new novel, Trace Elements, Brunetti - like the messenger of the gods - does not rest until he and his colleagues unravel the profound and perilous meaning of the dying woman's words. Donna Leon gives us rare insight into the human heart, and, together with her endearing characters, uncovers new and unforgettable facets of the human condition.

Donna Leons tjugonde Brunetti-deckare är här! Jakten på gärningsmannen leder som alltid in i det mytomspunna Venedigs mörkaste vrår. En ung kvinna återvänder från semestern och hittar sin granne, en äldre dam, död på golvet. Troligen har hon drabbats av hjärtinfarkt. Kommissarie Brunetti bestämmer sig för att undersöka saken närmare. Snart upptäcker han att den äldre kvinnan har varit engagerad i en kvinnojour. Och att hennes lägenhet har fungerat som fristad för misshandlade och utnyttjade kvinnor. Övertygad om att detta är den viktigaste ledtråden i utredningen om dödsfallet börjar han söka svar. Och stöter på en historia som sträcker sig årtionden bakåt i tiden. En historia fylld av kärlek, lögner och bedrägeri.

Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can't shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman's son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered do little to satisfy Brunetti's nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, perhaps Brunetti can get to the truth and find some measure of justice in this outstanding twentieth installment in Donna Leon's magisterial Commissario Brunetti series.

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed his pleasure in peace. And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis beneath. Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and one of his friends just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room--having earlier sent Gonzalo an email saying "We are the only ones who know you cannot do this," referring to the adoption. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo's life that ultimately led to murder--a resolution that brings him way more pain than satisfaction. Once again, Donna Leon brilliantly plumbs the twists and turns of the human condition, reuniting us with some of crime fiction's most memorable and enduring characters.

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.

Kuka on syyllinen tietovuotoon Venetsian poliisin päämajassa, Questurassa? Kiusallinen selvitystyö lankeaa komisario Brunettille. Kirjallisuuden professori Crosera epäilee poikansa käyttävän huumeita, ja haluaa Brunettin paljastavan kuka niitä myy kalliin yksityiskoulun liepeillä. Pian samaisen professorin puoliso joutuu silmittömän päällekarkauksen uhriksi. Brunetti seuraa ristiriitaisia johtolankoja ja tietolähteitä, joiden myötä paljastuu salaisia sopimuksia ja huijaussivustoja. Tutkimusten edetessä komisario Claudia Griffonin intuitio osoittautuu korvaamattomaksi, Signorina Elettran häikäisevistä tietokonetaidoista puhumattakaan. Jo 800 000 Donna Leon-dekkaria myyty Suomessa!

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDThe latest bestselling Venice crime novel from celebrated author Donna LeonAs 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.

Donna Leons tjugonde Brunetti-deckare är här! Jakten på gärningsmannen leder som alltid in i det mytomspunna Venedigs mörkaste vrår. En ung kvinna återvänder från semestern och hittar sin granne, en äldre dam, död på golvet. Troligen har hon drabbats av hjärtinfarkt. Kommissarie Brunetti bestämmer sig för att undersöka saken närmare. Snart upptäcker han att den äldre kvinnan har varit engagerad i en kvinnojour. Och att hennes lägenhet har fungerat som fristad för misshandlade och utnyttjade kvinnor. Övertygad om att detta är den viktigaste ledtråden i utredningen om dödsfallet börjar han söka svar. Och stöter på en historia som sträcker sig årtionden bakåt i tiden. En historia fylld av kärlek, lögner och bedrägeri.

Donna Leon's bestselling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti has won her countless fans, critical acclaim, and international renown as one of the world's best crime writers. In A Question of Belief, Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransi-gence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading. But before he can go on vacation, a folder with court records has landed on his desk, brought by an old friend. It appears that cases at the local court--hardly known as a model of efficiency--are being delayed to the benefit of one of the parties, a creative new trick for corrupting the system. And just when it looks like Brunetti will be able to get away, a shocking, violent crime forces him to stay in Venice. A Question of Belief is a stellar addition to Leon's celebrated series.

The memorable characters and Venetian drama that have long captivated Donna Leon's many readers are on full display in The Temptation of Forgiveness, the twenty-seventh novel in the bestselling mystery series. Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised more consequentially by the appearance of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and hopeful Brunetti can somehow intervene. When the woman's husband is found unconscious with a serious brain injury at the foot of a bridge in Venice after midnight, Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy's behavior. But the truth, as Brunetti has experienced so often, is not so straightforward.

Komisario Brunettin ansaittu loma katkeaa syyllisyyden ja surun täyttämään tragediaan. Sietokykynsä rajoille joutunut Brunetti on loman tarpeessa, ja puolison rikas sukulainen tarjoaa Sant’Erasmon saaren huvilaansa komisarion käyttöön kahdeksi viikoksi. Brunetti aikooo viettää aikaansa soudellen ja klassikkoja lukien, kaukana Questuran uuvuttavasta arjesta. Mutta leppoisa oleskelu veden äärellä keskeytyy, kun paikan huolenpitäjä Davide Casati katoaa kesäisessä ukkosmyrskyssä. Mitä miehelle on tapahtunut? Voiko kysymyksessä olla onnettomuus? Brunetti alkaa selvittää Casatin kohtaloa. He ehtivät soudella yhdessä parisen viikkoa, ja Brunetti tajuaa ettei silti tiedä miehestä mitään.