Donna Leon

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born

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

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female

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Mystery & Thrillers

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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

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Average rating: 3.78 · 23,148 ratings · 2,909 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti #1) 3.73 avg rating — 2,791 ratings — published 1992 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti #2) 3.77 avg rating — 1,640 ratings — published 1993 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti #5) 3.87 avg rating — 1,541 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions	My rating:
	A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti #7) 3.85 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti #3) 3.82 avg rating — 1,401 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti #15) 3.73 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti #12) 3.77 avg rating — 1,079 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Doctored Evidence (Commissario Brunetti #13) 3.80 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Blood from a Stone (Commissario Brunetti #14) 3.79 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2005 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Guido Brunetti #16) 3.71 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	My rating:

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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

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

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“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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