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About Face
The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: Book #18
By Donna Leon
Narrated by David Colacci / 9 hours 40 minutes
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 also violent crime and political corruption.
In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.
Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before.
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Dressed for Death
By: Donna Leon 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 call... Read More »
Death and Judgment
By: Donna Leon 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 »
Fatal Remedies
By: Donna Leon 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.... Read More »
Friends in High Places
By: Donna Leon 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... Read More »
A Sea of Troubles
By: Donna Leon 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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... Read More »
A Question of Belief
By: Donna Leon 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 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... Read More »
Beastly Things
By: Donna Leon 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... Read More »
The Golden Egg
By: Donna Leon 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... Read More »