Willful Behavior

Listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction, Willful Behavior (2018) by Donna Leon is the author’s eleventh  Commissario Brunetti Mystery . When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, she 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.    Unable to find any living relatives, he visits the elderly Austrian woman who was once Claudia’s grandfather’s lover and with whom Claudia was close—and is stunned by the extraordinary art collection she keeps in her otherwise modest apartment. When she, too, is murdered, Brunetti’s investigation uncovers shocking skeletons in the closet of Nazi collaboration that few in Italy want revealed . . .    “[A] widely admired series.” — Chicago Tribune    Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, she lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland.   Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop Find other novels by Donna Leon on Art In Fiction.