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A Postcard from Italy

A Postcard from Italy
  • Author(s): Alex Brown
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Grace Quinn loves her job at Cohen’s Convenient Storage Company, finding occasional treasure in the forgotten units that customers have abandoned. Her inquisitive nature is piqued when a valuable art collection and a bundle of letters and diaries are...

California Sister

California Sister
  • Author(s): Gloria Mattioni
  • Location(s): Bergamo, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sister’s love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her older sister’s devastating brain-hemorrhage, determined to restore her health-or...

Flowers Over the Inferno

Flowers Over the Inferno
  • Author(s): Ilaria Tuti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a quiet village surrounded by the imposing Italian Alps, a series of brutal assaults take place. Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is called in when the first body is found. Soon more victims are discovered – all horrifically mutilated...

Leonardo’s Swans

Leonardo’s Swans
  • Author(s): Karen Essex
  • Location(s): Ferrara, Italy, Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

At the heart of this book is the complex relationship between two of Leonardo’s muses and patrons at the court of Milan: The d’Este sisters, Isabella and Beatrice, who are betrothed to two very different men. Isabella marries the...

The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains
  • Author(s): Paolo Cognetti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become. Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in...

The Italian Flame

The Italian Flame
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...

The Lemon Tree Hotel

The Lemon Tree Hotel
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Vernazza, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011

In the beautiful village of Vernazza, the Mazzone family have transformed an old convent overlooking the glamorous Italian Riviera into the elegant Lemon Tree Hotel. For Chiara, her daughter Elene and her granddaughter Isabella, the running of their hotel...

The Vernazza Effect

The Vernazza Effect
  • Author(s): Roberta R Carr
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Walker strives to live her best life. When tragedy strikes at both work and home, her world spirals out of control. She confides in her best friend, Tara Collins, who helps her confront her fears. With Tara...

A Hundred Million Years and a Day

A Hundred Million Years and a Day
  • Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Andrea
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, in the summer of 1954, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature – a veritable dragon – lies deep in an...

Snow, Dog, Foot

Snow, Dog, Foot
  • Author(s): Claudio Morandini
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first. Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to...

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