Books by Donna Leon
Donna Leon is the celebrated author of 19 international best sellers (more than two million copies sold) featuring a shrewd but principled police detective by the name of Guido Brunetti who confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice. Each case provides an opportunity for the author to reveal another aspect of the seamy underside of society and another aspect of life in Venice, where she has resided for 25 years. Brunetti’s boss is the vain and self-serving buffoon, Vice-Questore Patta, while Sergente (later Ispettore) Vianello and the all-knowing and well-connected Signorina Elettra, Patta’s secretary, assist Brunetti on the ground and through research.