American author Donna Leon uses the Italian city as the backdrop for her Commissario Brunetti detective stories. In Leon's Venice, the violence usually occurs at dawn. This piece, part of our Crime in ...

One of the books I grabbed at this year’s sale at Exclusive Books is Donna Leon’s The Jewels of Paradise (published in 2012). I’ve been a fan of Donna’s for a long time and strongly recommend her ...

Roughly a third of this cheerfully opinionated book is devoted to her beloved Venice and her “cool, anonymous” life there. (One aspect of Leon’s anonymity is that she’s not published in Italy — she ...

Writer Donna Leon has lived in Venice, Italy, for three decades, and in that time she has published 20 crime novels featuring the suave detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. Like the rest of the ...

She is one of the world's most successful authors and has put the spotlight on Venice in her detective novels. At 75, Donna Leon is still busy plotting her next crimes. The American novelist didn't ...

Earthly Remains is the 26th novel in Leon’s Brunetti series which has become an international phenomenon, garnering crime writing awards from around the world. Sadly for the locals, there is no ...

The 25th book in Donna Leon's bestselling detective series, The Waters of Eternal Youth, continues to follow Commissario Guido Brunetti as he solves murders in and around Venice. In the latest ...

In “Give Unto Others,” Donna Leon’s latest procedural starring Commissario Guido Brunetti, the city of Venice is breathing a bit easier after getting past the peak of the pandemia. Venetians are once ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are a lot of things that Donna Leon does not do. Mobile phones, social media, watching TV, making ...

MORNING EDITION's Crime in the City series takes us, next, to one of the most distinctive cities in the world. Venice is all but a city at sea, built on islands in a lagoon crosshatched with canals ...

In Donna Leon’s 30th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, “Transient Desires,” the setting — Venice — is the most important character of all. By Marilyn Stasio Marilyn Stasio finds the latest crime ...