Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Donna Leon
Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties
In stock at 8 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 8 shops
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
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
In stock at 1 shop, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 1 shop
The celebrated Venetian detective returns in his 31st case in a year of celebration for his author, Donna Leon
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Commissario Brunetti is faced with another dark mystery. It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice, to a family still grieving for its abducted son …
In stock at 3 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 3 shops
The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past
It is a luminous spring day in Venice, as Commissario Brunetti and Inspettore Vianello come to the rescue of Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti, who has been arrested while protesting against…
The fourth novel in the highly popular Commissario Brunetti series
For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife. As Paola’s actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti…
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He believes the man’s death is connected to the illegal…
First published in Great Britain in 2008 by William Heinemann –Title page verso.
The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties
In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDThe latest bestselling Venice crime novel from celebrated author Donna LeonAs a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to…
When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher…
In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all.
When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other…
He discovers that her husband worked for a company that monitored the cleanliness of Venice’s water supply and that he had died in a motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice…
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon's magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was
Around one AM on…
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murderOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola…
The hardcover edition of this book was published in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers, and a paperback edition in 1995 by HarperTorch. – Title page verso.
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
In his many years as a Commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover…
In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned.
From…
Kidnapping fears, requests for Brunetti’s help, and a murder are all part of the action in this sensual and sensuous mystery about love and regret.
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Then something very incriminating is discovered in the dead man’s flat - something which points to the existence of a high-level cabal - and Brunetti becomes convinced that somebody, somewhere…
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
The third novel in the highly popular Commissario Brunetti series
The twisted maze of Venice’s canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death …but none so horrific and…
Published in 2020 by arrangement with Grove/Atlantic, Inc. –Title page verso.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst…
In Death and Judgment, the fourth novel in Donna Leon’s best se lling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on a treacherous road in…
A crisis is caused when Commissario Guido Brunetti’s wife Paola breaks the law and is waiting at the scene of the crime to be apprehended. Brunetti is under more pressure…
What begins as a red-tape headache for Commissario Brunetti regarding his Venice apartment building ends in murder after a bureaucrat on the case is found dead after a mysterious fall…
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, the weather is the last…
Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly…
Caterina Pellegrini, a native Venetian with a doctorate in baroque opera, must determine the rightful ownership of two locked trunks belonging to a famous composer who has been dead for…
Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking –Container.
From the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon’s first stand-alone novel. Sworn…
Endpaper map by Martin Lubikowski, ML Design, London –Copyright page.
A stunning novel, the best of this brilliant series, with a twist at the end that will leave even the most sophisticated reader gasping. –Globe and Mail
When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor - a humiliation Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid - Commissario Brunetti receives a call…
From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits…
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by William Heinemann –Title page verso.