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Donna Leon

“A dramatic and deeply satisfying climax … a high-stakes mystery in which the setting vibrates with as much life as the story itself. ” —Publishers Weekly

As Venice braces for a winter tempest, intrepid Italian sleuth Commissario Guido Brunetti finds out that an archaeologist and old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of opera singer Flavia Petrelli.

Then, as the floodwaters rise, the corpse of a museum director is discovered—and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet.

“An evocative peep into the dark underworld of the beauteous city. ” —Time Out London

“A superb police detective. ” —Library Journal

Also published under the title Death in High Water

Grove Press

A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Acqua Alta

In this “powerful” novel in the New York Times–bestselling series, an Italian police detective delves into two deaths and a dark era of history (The Times, London).

When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, she 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.

Unable to find any living relatives, he visits the elderly Austrian woman who was once Claudia’s grandfather’s lover and with whom Claudia was close—and is stunned by the extraordinary art collection she keeps in her otherwise modest apartment. When she, too, is murdered, Brunetti’s investigation uncovers shocking skeletons in the closet of Nazi collaboration that few in Italy want revealed …

“[A] widely admired series. ” —Chicago Tribune

“The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon’s long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his role as an Everyman … [his life is] not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life. ” —Booklist

Willful Behavior

The New York Times–bestselling series transports us to “Donna Leon’s enticing, troubled and beautiful Venice … Her latest mystery is one of her best” (Providence Journal).

A New York Times Book Review Best Crime Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Financial Times Summer Book Pick • A Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine Most Anticipated Mystery of the Year

Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised 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 straightforward.

While Brunetti pursues several false and contradictory leads, he becomes exasperated by the petty bureaucracy that constantly bedevils him and threatens to expose Signorina Elettra, his superior’s secretary. But steadied by the embrace of his own family and by his passion for the classics, he reads Sophocles’s Antigone, and, in its light, considers the terrible consequences to which the actions of a tender heart can lead.

“It’s the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon’s police procedurals so engaging… . Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native. ” ―The New York Times Book Review

“[A] droll and intelligent series. ” ―The Wall Street Journal

“[A] richly rewarding series … from a master of character-rich crime fiction. ” ―Booklist

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Temptation of Forgiveness

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