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Mort en terre étrangère (Commissaire Brunetti  #2)

A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead on the floor. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Commissario Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for abused women and that her apartment was a safe-house. 

Convinced that this is the lead he has been looking for, Brunetti begins his search for answers. But as he sets out to discover the truth behind her death, he is drawn into a decades-old story of lies and deceit that has blighted love and ruined lives - and has claimed this innocent woman as its newest victim. Brunetti's investigation takes him deep into the dark heart of his beloved Venice.

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS - BRUNETTI: VOLUME 16

Death at la fenice

Brunetti Passe à Table

Personne n'a rien vu. Pourtant, un vendeur africain vient d'être abattu au beau milieu de Campo San Stefano, l'une des plus belle places de Venise. Qui pouvait bien chercher à éliminer ce pauvre bougre ? Pourquoi le ministère de l'Intérieur fait-il pression sur le commissaire Brunetti pour qu'il abandonne l'enquête ? Peut-être à cause des diamants retrouvés parmi les affaires de la victime.

De sang et d'ébène

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, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding.  ''They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no'', Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto.  Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice''s water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta''s obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta''s secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman''s accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, he reads Aeschylus''s classic play  The Eumenides .   As she has done so often through her memorable characters and storytelling skill, Donna Leon once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences between guilt and responsibility.

TRACE ELEMENTS - COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI NOVEL

Alors que le commissaire Brunetti vient d'enterrer sa mère, un missionnaire lui propose d'enquêter sur une secte vénitienne. Parallèlement, le corps d'une fillette est retrouvé dans un canal et vient hanter la conscience de Brunetti. Pour trouver le coupable il doit plonger dans le milieu des roms d'Italie et se confronter à son propre sentiment religieux.

La Petite Fille de ses rêves

As Uniform Justice opens, Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. 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 is clearly and understandably devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of the other witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greater than this one death?

Le meilleur de nos fils

La quatrième enquête du commissaire Brunetti. Le commissaire Brunetti, enquêtant sur la mort d'un célèbre avocat, arpente les quartiers malfamés de Venise et tombe sur la piste d'un trafic international de prostitution. Avec l'aide inattendue de la délicieuse signorina Elettra, la nouvelle secrétaire du vice-questeur, le commissaire Brunetti va découvrir un commerce plus ignoble encore qu'une "traite des Blanches" post-rideau de fer... Donna Leon rend hommage à l'atmosphère unique de la Cité des Doges. On retrouve l'univers attachant de son héros, mari et père dévoué, fin limier, citoyen en lutte contre la corruption d'une ville dont le sens moral semble se détériorer plus vite que les palaces. Durée : 8h10mn.

Mort en terre étrangère (Commissaire Brunetti #2)

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