Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon

Leon lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in a small village in Switzerland. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College – Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy and then worked as a professor from 1981 to 1999 at the American military base of Vicenza, Italy. She stopped teaching and concentrated on writing and other cultural activities in the field of music (especially baroque music).

Leon’s Commissario Brunetti novels are all situated in or around Venice. They are written in English and translated into many foreign languages, but not into Italian, at Leon’s request. The ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger in 2000. German television has produced 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes for broadcast.

The books in suggested reading order:

01 – Death at La Fenice
02 – Death in a Strange Country
03 – The Anonymous Venetian
04 – A Venetian Reckoning
05 – Acqua Alta
06 – The Death of Faith
07 – A Noble Radiance
08 – Fatal Remedies
09 – Friends in High Places
10 – A Sea of Troubles
11 – Wilful Behaviour
12 – Uniform Justice
13 – Doctored Evidence
14 – Blood From a Stone
15 – Through a Glass Darkly
16 – Suffer the Little Children
17 – The Girl of His Dreams
18 – About Face
19 – A Question of Belief