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 ...

Donna Leon’s 33 rd installment of her immensely popular Commissario (detective inspector) Guido Brunetti series shows that at 82 she still has a literary fastball. And that she knows how to keep ...

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 ...

Providing insight into Venetian society through the lens of a gripping intellectual mystery, this atmospheric tale from Leon (Uniform Justice, etc.) finds Inspector Guido Brunetti investigating an ...

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 ...

When Commisario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police goes to the idyllic island Sant’ Erasmo for some down time, he takes with him Pliny’s “Natural History” plus works by Suetonius, Herodotus and ...

No one knows Venice and its environs like Donna Leon and Guido Brunetti. This time they take us out into the vast lagoon beyond the city. In an attempt to prevent a young cop from leaping upon a smug ...

UNLIKE some of Donna Leon’s 14 previous mysteries that open with a crime awaiting the expert attention of Venice detective Guido Brunetti, “Through a Glass, Darkly” spends much of the first half ...

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, ...

“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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...