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Garden of Letters

Garden of Letters
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Portofino, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Largely set in World War II, Verona, both before and during the German Occupation.  Elodie Bertolotti is a very gifted young cellist who becomes involved in the Italian Resistance movement. She plays her cello but everything changes when her...

The Passion of the Cross

The Passion of the Cross
  • Author(s): Tony Lee Moral
  • Location(s): Rome, Florence, Portofino
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When famed curator Giovanni Montefiore is shockingly murdered at the Italian Opera in Rome following his bold proclamation regarding the authenticity of the True Cross, there are many suspects, but suspicion falls heavily upon his nephew, Mario Montefiore. With...

A Problematic Love

A Problematic Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Eight years after her fiancé was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...

Hotel Portofino

Hotel Portofino
  • Author(s): J P O’Connell
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A heady historical drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s’. Hotel Portofino has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its...

Murder in Portofino

Murder in Portofino
  • Author(s): T A Williams
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mysteries Book 8) A much-needed holiday… Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him....

The Girl from Portofino

The Girl from Portofino
  • Author(s): Siobhan Daiko
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 / 1944

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father’s funeral, she is beset by vivid memories of World War 2, when she joined the Resistance, alongside her identical twin sister, Adele. In her...

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