Willful behavior

Format:

Book

Title:

Willful behavior

Author:

Leon, Donna author

ISBN:

9780802128515

Edition:

Grove Atlantic edition.

Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

288, 14 pages ; 21 cm.

Series title(s):

Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery ;

Number in series:

11.

General Note:

First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann 2002.

"A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery" --Cover.

Includes an excerpt from Donna Leon's A Question of Belief.

Summary:

"Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it--until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews--secrets few in Italy want revealed." --Page 4 of cover.

Personal Subject:

Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00839853

Subject(s):

Murder -- Investigation -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction.

Jews, Italian -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction.

Police -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction.

Nazis -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction.

Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Venice (Italy) -- Fiction.

Italy -- Venice.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library	LEON, D. Guido Brunetti #11	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior , Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it--until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews--secrets few in Italy want revealed.

Author Notes

Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)