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 ...

“Transient Desires” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 272 pages, $27) is the 30th entry in Donna Leon’s procedural series set in Venice, Italy, and starring police commissario Guido Brunetti. This latest ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julian Fellowes is turning Donna Leon's acclaimed 'Detective Brunetti' series into a TV series credit:Bang Showbiz 'Downton Abbey' ...

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 ...

A Venetian Reckoning is the third installment in our Donna Leon series, a dark criminal investigation that reveals some ugly ...

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 ...

THE GENESIS, and huge international success, of the Venetian suite policière involving Commissario Guido Brunetti has to be one of the oddest publishing stories in years. Donna Leon (if that isn’t a ...

Julian Fellowes, the creator of hit period shows Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age, is set to write and executive produce a TV adaptation of Donna Leon's popular Detective Brunetti book series. The ...