Falling in Love

Death in a Strange Country

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim's apartment that suggests the... Read more »

Dressed for Death

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone...

Death and Judgment

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

A truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, in Santa Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboard an intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the two tragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedy Venetian bar that holds the key to... Read more »

Acqua Alta

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

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 Chinese pottery in... Read more »

Quietly In Their Sleep

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems... Read more »

A Noble Radiance

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder. Read more »

Fatal Remedies

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

In Fatal Remedies, Brunetti’s career is under threat when his professional and personal lives unexpectedly intersect. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city, and Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is a member of his own family....

Friends in High Places

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

In Friends in High Places, Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of approval for the building of Brunetti’s apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is later found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that...

A Sea of Troubles

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Dona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario's personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to... Read more »

Willful Behavior

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No

Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a... Read more »

Uniform Justice

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro seems devastated by... Read more »

Doctored Evidence

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed author Donna Leon has earned lavish accolades for her elegant Venetian mysteries featuring the irresistibly charming Commissario Brunetti. Now, following her magnificently received Uniform Justice, she presents her most beguiling and thrilling mystery yet. Against the atmospheric backdrop of the city of Venice, Brunetti... Read more »

Blood from a Stone

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death—fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods... Read more »

Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

On a spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced with the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, who has made violent threats against Ribetti. Brunetti's curiousity is... Read more »

Suffer the Little Children

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—burst into the doctor’s apartment while the family was sleeping, attacked him, and took away his eighteen-month-old boy.... Read more »

The Girl of His Dreams

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near the steps in one of Venice's side canals. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot-together he and Vianello lift a... Read more »

About Face

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warmhearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's bestselling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but...

A Question of Belief

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns 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... Read more »

Drawing Conclusions

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Late one night, Commissario Guido Brunetti’s telefonino rings. A old woman’s body has been found in a Spartan apartment on Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio. Brunetti sees some signs of force on the old woman, but they could just as easily have been from the radiator near where she fell. When the medical examiner rules that the woman died of a heart...

Beastly Things

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can’t show pictures of his face?

The autopsy...

The Golden Egg

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Rintoul
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No

Over the years, the bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has conquered the hearts of mystery lovers all over the world. Brunetti is both a perceptive investigator and a principled family man, and through him, Leon has explored Venice in all its aspects: its history, beauty, food, and social life, but also its crime and corruption. In...

By Its Cover

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

Donna Leon' s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture. In the pages of Leon' s novels, the beloved conversations of... Read more »

Falling in Love

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti series, introduced readers to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli-then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned... Read more »

The Waters of Eternal Youth

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a... Read more »

Earthly Remains

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the suffocating... Read more »

The Temptation of Forgiveness

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

In the 27th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is... Read more »

Unto Us a Son is Given

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

"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... Read more »

Trace Elements

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

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... Read more »

Transient Desires

By: Donna Leon
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crime. In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways... Read more »