Donna Leon





Donna Leon

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September 28, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey, The United States

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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 i...more


Average rating: 3.78 · 23,148 ratings · 2,909 reviews · 51 distinct works
Death at La Fenice (Commiss...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,791 ratings — published 1992 — 30 editions
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Death in a Strange Country ...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,640 ratings — published 1993 — 25 editions
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Acqua Alta (Commissario Bru...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,541 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions
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A Noble Radiance (Commissar...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions
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Dressed for Death (Commissa...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,401 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions
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Through a Glass, Darkly (Co...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions
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Uniform Justice (Commissari...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,079 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions
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Doctored Evidence (Commissa...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions
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Blood from a Stone (Commiss...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2005 — 28 editions
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Suffer the Little Children ...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions
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More books by Donna Leon…
Death at La Fenice Death in a Strange Country Dressed for Death Death and Judgment Acqua Alta Quietly in Their Sleep A Noble Radiance
Commissario Brunetti (21 books)
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“Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...”
Donna Leon, Death and Judgment

“How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.”
Donna Leon, Dressed for Death

“Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will”
Donna Leon, Acqua Alta

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