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Выстрел в лицо Выстрел в лицо
Автор: Жанр: Современный криминальный детектив Издательство: Иностранка / Колибри Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 2017
   К комиссару Гвидо Брунетти обращаются за помощью коллеги из карабинерии, расследующие убийство владельца небольшой транспортной компании. Но они явно темнят и чего-то не договаривают, вынуждая Брунетти в очередной раз прибегать к услугам очаровательной Элеттры — секретарши его непосредственного начальника, владеющей хакерскими приемами. Искать разгадку преступления особенно нелегко, потому что внимание комиссара без конца отвлекает таинственная Франка Маринелло — молодая жена крупного бизнесмена, чье когда-то прекрасное лицо изуродовали пластические хирурги, превратив его в неподвижную маску. Какие секреты таит это лицо? Брунетти не найдет ответа на этот вопрос, пока не произойдет еще два кровавых убийства.
 
Drawing Conclusions Drawing Conclusions
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2014
   When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim's neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her? Conversations with the woman's son, her upstairs neighbour, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered, do little to satisfy Brunetti's nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, Brunetti is determined to get to the truth and find some measure of justice. Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon's status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction.
 
Blood from a Stone Blood from a Stone
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 355 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 2008
   When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as the best mystery writer you've never heard of... She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and — best of all — the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface ( Chicago Tribune). Now Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated character Commissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor 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. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without work permits. Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybody involved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With few social connections and little money, infighting among these workers is the obvious answer. But once Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive 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. Reluctant as he is to let this event be smugly relegated to the category of not worth dealing with, how far will Brunetti be able to penetrate the murky subculture in this illegal community? Blood from a Stone is an exquisite and irresistible mystery offering anunexpected take on life in contemporary Venice.
 
Uniform Justice Uniform Justice
Автор: Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 294 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 2009
   For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In «Uniform Justice», 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 with finding the truth. The young man's father is a doctor and former politician. He is a man of an impeccable integrity who inexplicably avoids talking to the police. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or has Brunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of a single death?
 
Высокая вода Высокая вода
Автор: Жанр: Современный криминальный детектив Издательство: Иностранка / Колибри Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 2014
   В богатую венецианскую квартиру Бретт Линч, американской специалистки по китайским древностям, проникают два головореза и зверски ее избивают. При этом они требуют, чтобы Бретт отменила свою назначенную на ближайшие дни встречу с директором музея Дворца Дожей, Dottore Семенцато. Если бы не вмешательство неожиданно приехавшей к ней в гости подруги, последствия могли бы быть непредсказуемыми. Комиссар Брунетти сразу же отвергает версию неудавшегося ограбления, к которой склоняется его начальство. И он, как всегда, оказывается прав — происходит убийство. Перевод с английского.
 
Beastly Things Beastly Things
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 2014
   When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to uncover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse on the mainland, where they discover the origin of the crime, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it. Both a gripping case and a harrowing exploration of the dark side of Italy's meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series.
 
Beastly Things Beastly Things
Автор: Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 2017
   When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, and what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to uncover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse on the mainland, where they discover the origin of the crime, and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it. Both a gripping case and a harrowing exploration of the dark side of Italy's meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series.
 
Suffer the Little Children Suffer the Little Children
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 2011
   The quiet of the Venetian night is shattered as a band of armed men smash their way into Dr Gustavo Pedrolli's apartment, fracture his skull and grab his eighteen-month-old baby. And when Commissario Guido Brunetti, pulled from his bed by the news, arrives at the hospital to investigate, no one knows why the eminent paediatrician has suffered such a violent assault. But soon Brunetti begins to uncover a story of infertility, desperation, and an underworld where babies can be bought for cash — linked with a money-making scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city. And knowledge can be as destructive as greed — certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain.
 
The Golden Egg The Golden Egg
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 2018
   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 his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. To the neighbourhood he was just the 'boy' who helped out, but nobody knew much about him — not even his name.
 
A Question of Belief A Question of Belief
Автор: Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 262 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2013
   - Donna Leon was named one of Time magazine's 50 Greatest Crime Writers; — About Face was a New York Times (extended), San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Washington Post Book World, National Indie, New England Independent Booksellers Association, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Independent Mystery Booksellers Association best seller;
 
Drawing Conclusions Drawing Conclusions
Автор: Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 260 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 2016
   Nearly twenty 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. This internationally acclaimed, bestselling series is widely considered one of the best ever written, and Atlantic Monthly Press is thrilled to be publishing the twentieth installment, Drawing Conclusions, this spring. Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can't shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman's son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered, do little to satisfy Brunetti's nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, perhaps Brunetti can get to the truth and find some measure of justice. Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon's status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction.
 
Death at La Fenice Death at La Fenice
Автор: Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1994 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 2009
   Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.
 
Смерть в чужой стране: Роман Смерть в чужой стране: Роман
Автор: Жанр: Современный криминальный детектив Издательство: Иностранка / Колибри Год: 2005 Страниц: 396 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 2009
   Ранним утром в грязном венецианском канале обнаруживают труп молодого человека. На место происшествия тут же прибывает комиссар Брунетти. Все вроде бы указывает на убийство с целью ограбления, но комиссар не очень склонен верить очевидному. И действительно, вскоре в квартире молодого человека находится свидетельство того, что кому-то очень нужно сбить полицию со следа.
 
Смерть в «Ла Фениче» Смерть в «Ла Фениче»
Автор: Жанр: Современный криминальный детектив Издательство: Иностранка / Колибри Год: 2005 Страниц: 367 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 2009
   Знаменитый немецкий оперный дирижер выпивает в антракте спектакля напиток с подмешанным туда ядом. Расследовать преступление поручают комиссару Гвидо Брунетти. Пока Брунетти подбирает ключи к разгадке тайны, перед читателей разворачивается картина порока и возмездия, заставляющая его выбирать между тем, что принято считать справедливым, и тем, что действительно справедливо, и задаваться вопросом — что может предпринять закон и что он должен предпринять? Перевод с английского Е. Чевкиной.
 

 

 

 

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