Donna Leon is the author of nineteen international best-selling novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, all of which have been critically acclaimed. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Leon has lived in Venice for over twenty-five years.
Commissario Guido Brunetti series order to 2010
Death at la Fenice, 1992
Death in a Strange Country, 1993
Dressed for Death, 1994, first published as The Anonymous Venetian
A Ventian Reckoning, 1995, first published as Death and Judgement
Acqua Alta, 1996, first published as Death in High Water
Quietly in Their Sleep, 1997, first published as Death of Faith
A Noble Radiance, 1998
Fatal Remedies, 1999
Friends in High Places, 2000
A Sea of Troubles, 2001
Wilful Behaviour, 2002
Uniform Justice, 2003
Doctored Evidence, 2004
Blood from a Stone, 2005
Through the Glass Darkly, 2006
Suffer the Little Children, 2007
The Girl of his Dreams, 2008
About Face, 2009
A Question of Belief, 2010
This biography was last updated on 08/06/2010.
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