Writer Donna Leon has ... he's well-read," Leon tells NPR's Liane Hansen. "At times, he seems to go about things slowly but he's always calculating. He also, as a Venetian, is able to manipulate ...

That enticing premise is exactly what American Donna Leon, who’s lived in Venice for ... a musicologist and native Venetian who quits a dreary job in England to return home to attend the opening ...

DONNA LEON: (Reading) These were the hours when, for Brunetti, the city became most beautiful, just as they were the same hours when he, Venetian ... I'm completely anonymous here.

In “So Shall You Reap,” the latest entry in Donna Leon’s Venetian procedural series, Commissario Guido Brunetti’s father-in-law asks him for a favor. Can Brunetti find out, on behalf of ...

It may take a few chapters beforeDonna Leon's avid readers get over their disappointment in her latest mystery. All looks molto bene at first: Venetian ... in this story! A Donna Leon mystery ...

THE GENESIS, and huge international success, of the Venetian suite policière involving Commissario Guido Brunetti has to be one of the oddest publishing stories in years. Donna Leon (if that isn ...

Donna Leon never planned to write crime fiction. And yet this year she published her 32nd mystery novel featuring Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti. The series is an international ...

Writer Donna Leon has ... he's well-read," Leon tells NPR's Liane Hansen. "At times, he seems to go about things slowly but he's always calculating. He also, as a Venetian, is able to manipulate ...