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A Quiet Death in Italy

A Quiet Death in Italy
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Bologna: city of secrets, suspicion… and murder A dark and atmospheric crime thriller set in the beautiful Italian city of Bologna, perfect for fans of Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Philip Gwynne Jones. When the body of a radical...

Last Testament in Bologna

Last Testament in Bologna
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel Leicester #5 When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna’s wealthiest families – makers of some of the world’s...

Requiem in La Rossa

Requiem in La Rossa
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Daniel Leicester #3 In the sweltering heat of a Bologna summer, a murderer plans their pièce de résistance… Only in Bologna reads the headline in the Carlino after a professor of music is apparently murdered leaving the opera. But...

The Hunting Season

The Hunting Season
  • Author(s): Tom Benjamin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping and atmospheric crime thriller set in the beautiful Italian city of Bologna, perfect for fans of Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Philip Gwynne Jones. It’s truffle season and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on...

Night Bus

Night Bus
  • Author(s): Giampiero Rigosi
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Leila is both young and beautiful. She drugs the men she picks up and robs them. However, problems arise when her latest client has mistakenly acquired a document that could compromise certain parties willing to kill to get it...

The Broker

The Broker
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It’s a controversial...

The Fall of a Sparrow

The Fall of a Sparrow
  • Author(s): Robert Hellenga
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The centre of the story and the events and emotions in the characters lives’ is the death of Cookie in the Bologna train bomb in 1980. It chronicles the family’s struggle to heal itself after the death.

Blackout

Blackout
  • Author(s): Gianluca Morozzi
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bologna in August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man...

Almost Blue

Almost Blue
  • Author(s): Carolo Lucarelli
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Back to Bologna

Back to Bologna
  • Author(s): Michael Dibdin
  • Location(s): Bologna
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

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