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Language
English
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The New York Times–bestselling series continues with the murder of an American soldier in Venice: “This is definitely an author to watch (Kirkus Reviews).
Early one morning, Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether...
Early one morning, Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether...
Author
Series
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 27
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[42] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a family vacation in Venice, Olivia indulges in gelato, rides in a gondola, and finds the perfect souvenir.
7) L.A. dead
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington, an ex-cop-turned-lawyer, becomes caught between a woman abandoned on the altar and another suspected of murder.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2003, c1998
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.
10) Falling in love
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
264 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attending a performance by a opera star he saved in Death at La Fenice, Brunetti learns that the singer is being stalked by an obsessed fan who subsequently attacks a fellow performer.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
12) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept within the ancient city and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Inheriting her beloved great-aunt's sketchbook, a recently divorced woman uncovers mysteries about her great-aunt's star-crossed romance with a nobleman in World War II Venice.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 16
Language
English
Description
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men -- a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town -- have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and taken away his eighteenth-month old baby boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state so violent it has...
17) Alibi
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
701 pages (large print : maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
19) The demonologist
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
285 p. : 24 cm. ill. ;
Language
English
Description
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four mysterious words prompt antiques dealer Precious Rafferty to embark on a quest across Europe to uncover their meaning. Preshy, at age thirty-eight, loves her American-in-Paris life, but thinks that she'll never be swept off her feet-until she meets Bennett James. As their whirlwind courtship progresses, though, she realizes that there is much about his business life in Shanghai she doesn't know. Then she receives an urgent message from Lily Song,...