Author Donna Leon is celebrating the 20th installment of her Brunetti crime series, which follows the suave Commissario Guido Brunetti as he... Venetian Verite: Donna Leon's Gritty Italian Mystery ...
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 ...
American author Donna Leon uses the Italian city as the backdrop for her Commissario Brunetti detective stories. In Leon's Venice, the violence... A Tale Of Two Cities: Author Donna Leon's Venice ...
The Washington Post: Donna Leon dislikes violent books. She takes a different tack in her own.
Donna Leon never planned to write crime fiction. And yet this year she published her 32nd mystery novel featuring Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti. The series is an international bestseller ...
Donna Leon dislikes violent books. She takes a different tack in her own.
Imagine applying for a job in Venice where you’ll open two trunks sealed since 1728 and study their contents, which might contain treasure. That enticing premise is exactly what American Donna Leon, ...
The Financial Times: Writer Donna Leon: ‘I don’t want a Lamborghini. I have an orchestra’
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 ...
Writer Donna Leon: ‘I don’t want a Lamborghini. I have an orchestra’
THE GENESIS, and huge international success, of the Venetian suite policière involving Commissario Guido Brunetti has to be one of the oddest publishing stories in years. Donna Leon (if that isn’t a ...