books about: commissario

books about: commissario

books:

Commissario

Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon

Harper Paperbacks, 2004

Death at LaFenice
Not your typical mystery book. The ending is not only a surprise, but a unique one. Enjoy!

Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

Suffer The Little Children
Leon is an excellent writer who presents a mystery while describing the life styles of the characters in fascinating detail. An outstanding read!

Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Donna Leon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Good Brunetti Book
Donna Leon continues her streak of delightful Guido Brunetti novels -- this one set mostly in the glass factories of Murano. She combines fascinating details of the fabled Venetian glass factories with well-developed characters and vivid geography to cook up a tale of ...

Death and Judgment (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Donna Leon

Penguin Books, 2006

A very vivid book.
The first scene is of an accident involving a large carrier-truck in the mountains which, crashing, spills and kills its contents: the corpses of women lie in the snow, littering the mountainside like so many bright dolls. As in many Brunetti novels, justice does ...

Blood from a Stone (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Donna Leon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006

Perfect Pacing and Delicious Accents in David Colacci's Reading
Books full of psychology and verbal sparring rather than action benefit from being listened to rather than read. The professional reader (or author) is able to use timing, pace, and pauses to bring inaction to life and invite you deeper inside the mind of the ...

Dressed for Death (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)

Donna Leon

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

An Ironic Murder Mystery Triggers Probing Questions Leading to New Insights
With Dressed for Death (originally titled as The Anonymous Venetian), the Guido Brunetti mysteries reach their full power for the first time. As with Donna Leon's earlier books, Dressed for Death features a corpse that's prepared and deposited to create maximum ...

The Girl of His Dreams (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)

Donna Leon

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

All of Leon's books are wonderful reads, and THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS stands tall among them.
THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS is Donna Leon's 17th police procedural featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, the warm-hearted cop who reads the classics and gets his greatest joy from his family. The novel opens upon a gloomy scene at a graveside service in honor of Guido's ...

Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006

Happiness
As a recent trip to Venice inspired my thirst for anything to do with Venice and my veracious appetite for reading, a friend turned me on to Donna Leon. I am so happy to be reading about places that I visited.

A Sea of Troubles

Donna Leon

Arrow Books Ltd, 2002

Leon puts us on the 'write' course!
Donna Leon simply is a mesmerizing writer. No other author--and some do come close--approaches her today in terms of suspense, characterization, plot development, and social significance. In "Sea of Troubles," she continues her exceptional level of excellence. I ...

Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Audio Editions Mystery Masters)

Donna Leon

Mystery Masters, 2004

'Death in Venice' becomes a Donna Leon cliche
For all her "baker's dozen" Guido Brunetti books, Donna Leon continues to amaze this reader with her ability to sustain a police procedural so competently, so willingly, and so fantastically. It's Venice once again and the good Commissario finds himself lured into ...

The Wilderling (Commissario Brunetti Novels)
Claire Lorrimer

BBC Audiobooks, 1999

Although born into the British aristocracy, the Honourable Sophia Lucienne Rochford was raised in obscurity first in a French convent and then a Parisian brothel. At sixteen, she is restored to her rightful place as the daughter of the Rochford family, but a devastating betrayal by her father fires her determination to seek wealth and ...

Love, Again (Commissario Brunetti Novels)

Doris May Lessing

BBC Audiobooks, 1991

Melancholy and Romantic
"Love, Again" is one of Doris Lessing's "later" novels and it focuses on an older protagonist caught in the snares of romantic love. Sarah Durham is sixty-five and describes herself as not having been in love in decades. All that changes when she, the widow of a ...

The Last Enemy: A Commissario Cenni Investigation

Soho Crime, 2007

"The Last Enemy," a gripping tale, Italian style
The Last Enemy is a terrific read, an Italian police procedural that caught me up in a conflict between turning its pages fast and slowing down to savoring its luscious tastes, fascinating vignettes, and sights full of Umbrian local color. From its very first chapter, ...

Acqua Alta (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
Donna Leon

RB Large Print, 2004

From Publishers Weekly In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of ...