Donna Leon (born September 29, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon has lived in Venice for over twenty-five years. She has worked as a lecturer in English Literature for the University of Maryland University College - Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy, then as a Professor from 1981 to 1999 at the american military base of Vicenza (Italy) and a writer. Her crime novels are all situated in or near Venice. They are written in English and translated into many foreign languages, although not, by her request, into Italian. Her ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000. Series: * Commissario Brunetti
Series
Books
Beastly Things
2012
A Refiner’s Fire
2024
Doctored Evidence
2004
So Shall You Reap
2023
Venetian Curiosities
2012
A Sea of Troubles
2001
Death and Judgment
1995
Handel's Bestiary
In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas
2010
My Venice and Other Essays
2007
A Question of Belief
2010
Fatal Remedies
1999
Quietly in Their Sleep
1997
By Its Cover
2014
Brunetti's Cookbook
2009
Acqua Alta
1996
Through a Glass, Darkly
2006
Unto Us a Son Is Given
2019
Coffret Leon
2003
The Temptation of Forgiveness
2018
Friends in High Places
2000
Trace Elements
2020
Drawing Conclusions
2011
Death at La Fenice
1992
Earthly Remains
2017
Prix de la chair - Affaire Paola - Des amis haut placés
2004
The Golden Egg
2013
Falling in Love
2015
Gondola
2013
A Noble Radiance
1998
The Waters of Eternal Youth
2016
Les Enquêtes Du Commissaire Brunetti
2003
About Face
2009
Dressed for Death
1994
Wandering through Life
A Memoir
2023
Suffer the Little Children
2007
Blood from a Stone
2005
Transient Desires
2021
Give Unto Others
2022
The Jewels of Paradise
2012
Wilful Behaviour
2002
Death in a Strange Country
1993
Uniform Justice
2003
The Girl of His Dreams
2008
