In “Give Unto Others,” Donna Leon’s latest procedural starring Commissario Guido Brunetti, the city of Venice is breathing a bit easier after getting past the peak of the pandemia. Venetians are once ...

The protagonist is Freddy Otash, a familiar face from his Underworld USA series and a fascinating figure in Hollywood history. A former LAPD officer and private investigator, Otash was notorious as a ...

Imagine applying for a job in Venice where you’ll open two trunks sealed since 1728 and study their contents, which might contain treasure. That enticing premise is exactly what American Donna Leon, ...

In this stunning novel, the 14th to feature the dogged, intuitive Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti (after 2004's Doctored Evidence), Leon combines an engrossing, complex plot with an ...

It may take a few chapters beforeDonna Leon's avid readers get over their disappointment in her latest mystery. All looks molto bene at first: Venetian setting? Check. Insider descriptions of Italian ...

In Leon's 18th novel, Commissario Brunetti delves deeply into Venice's (literal and figurative) pollution, navigating the choked canals as he tries to solve the murder of a truck driver. When his ...

American author Donna Leon uses the Italian city as the backdrop for her Commissario Brunetti detective stories. In Leon's Venice, the violence usually occurs at dawn. This piece, part of our Crime in ...

Writer Donna Leon has lived in Venice, Italy, for three decades, and in that time she has published 20 crime novels featuring the suave detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. Like the rest of the ...

In “So Shall You Reap,” the latest entry in Donna Leon’s Venetian procedural series, Commissario Guido Brunetti’s father-in-law asks him for a favor. Can Brunetti find out, on behalf of the ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Marilyn Stasio TRANSIENT DESIRES By Donna Leon The city of Venice is such a beguiling presence in ...