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A Refiner's Fire
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s campi, the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all. This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti’s colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti’s attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte’s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.
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- By J on 07-08-24
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A Refiner's Fire
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 33
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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By Its Cover
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 23
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene.
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- By Gillian M. on 24-05-15
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By Its Cover
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 23
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 23
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-04-14
- Language: English
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So Shall You Reap
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim.
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Great Venetian series
- By Dr L. on 10-05-24
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So Shall You Reap
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 32
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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The Jewels of Paradise
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in the composer’s two chests that have not been opened for centuries. As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of the baroque era.
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VERY different from the Brunetti books!
- By JW Abbotts Ann on 11-05-20
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The Jewels of Paradise
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-10-12
- Language: English
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Wilful Behaviour
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 9 hrs
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When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...
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Good story, poor performance
- By L. McCulloch on 01-07-18
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Wilful Behaviour
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 11
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 02-02-12
- Language: English
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 27
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge.
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Spoilt by narration
- By Mrs Madeleine Oswald on 11-02-19
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 27
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 27
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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Fatal Remedies
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: John Nettles
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.
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Interesting but short
- By Mrs Linda Morgan on 29-02-24
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Fatal Remedies
- Narrated by: John Nettles
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 8
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-05
- Language: English
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The Golden Egg
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs
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Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the world. For her millions of fans, Leon’s novels have opened a window into the private Venice of her citizens, a world of incomparable beauty, family intimacy, shocking crime, and insidious corruption.
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A pleasant meander in Venice
- By Kirstine on 18-05-13
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The Golden Egg
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 22
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
- Brunetti 25
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th instalment in the best-selling Brunetti series, our commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the Grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal.
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A great story.
- By Ros on 03-09-22
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
- Brunetti 25
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 25
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-04-16
- Language: English
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Give unto Others
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 31
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Once again, Commissario Guido Brunetti is willing to bend police rules for an acquaintance, even though Elisabetta Foscarini, the woman who asks the favour, is not really a friend. But her mother was good to Brunetti's, so he feels he has no choice but to repay the debt and agrees to look into the matter 'privately', rather than as a police official. Her son-in-law has alarmed his wife by telling her they might be in danger because of something he's involved with.
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Lacks the human touch of earlier books
- By Kirstine on 12-05-22
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Give unto Others
- Commissario Brunetti, Book 31
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 31
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Falling in Love
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca. As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers.
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Style over substance
- By Michael Lynes on 16-03-16
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Falling in Love
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 24
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-04-15
- Language: English
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Blood from a Stone
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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But once Brunetti begins investigating this Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the immigrant society. Warned by Patta, his superior, to resist further involvement in the case, Brunetti only becomes more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. How far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture of Venice's illegal community?
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Venerable Venice...
- By Mrs J E Matthews on 21-04-06
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Blood from a Stone
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-06-06
- Language: English
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would become the sole heir to Gonzalo’s substantial fortune, something which Gonzalo’s friends, including the Count, find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why they're so intent on meddling in the old man's business.
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Not what they used to be
- By A Wagener on 05-05-19
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 28
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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Friends in High Places
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Brunetti's investigations take him into unfamiliar areas of Venetian life, drug abuse and loan-sharking, while the deaths of two young drug addicts and the arrest, and subsequent release, of a suspected drug-dealer reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.
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Good as usual
- By Kirstine on 15-11-07
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Friends in High Places
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-11-05
- Language: English
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Blood From a Stone
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomunitario, the dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits. Arriving on the scene, Commissario Brunetti's response matches that of everybody involved: why would anyone kill a vu cumpra?
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Another excellent Brunetti story
- By Caroline on 21-07-13
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Blood From a Stone
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 14
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-10-11
- Language: English
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About Face
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He’s charmed – perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola – by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera.
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Venice
- By Amanda J Butler on 21-05-24
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About Face
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 18
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-10-11
- Language: English
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Uniform Justice
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paolo have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy, Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity and sorrow for the death of a boy, close in age to his own son, and contempt and irritation for the arrogance and high-handedness of the boy's teachers and fellow-students.
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Terrible narration
- By Bizgen on 26-01-22
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Uniform Justice
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 12
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-12-11
- Language: English
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Drawing Conclusions
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes that there is more to it.
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Intelligent, erudite and thoroughly absorbing.
- By Annie Honjo on 13-05-11
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Drawing Conclusions
- A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 20
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-04-11
- Language: English
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A Question of Belief
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on his mind; it appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. This ‘unofficial’ investigation leads them to the flat of Stefano Gorini.
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Not the usual Brunetti
- By Michael Doury on 09-07-17
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A Question of Belief
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, Book 19
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-10-11
- Language: English
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The Girl of His Dreams
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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A 10-year-old gypsy girl is found dead in the canal, a man's wedding ring and watch in her possession, and Commissario Guido Brunetti uncovers a thorny world of prejudice and malefaction surrounding the immigrant gypsy communities.
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superb
- By Amazon Customer on 05-01-23
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The Girl of His Dreams
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-04-08
- Language: English
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