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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Mainly 1950s
Venice1866, a Frenchman on his honeymoon, sees an artist sketching a scene. When he visits his workshop, he falls in love with the painting and commissions five versions: one for himself, one for his two siblings, one for his...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Venice 1947. Countess Pesaro De Bonfili is searching for the legitimate heirs of Raffaele and Sylvia Mustaki, a couple who did not survive Nazi camps. Two researchers from a Venetian law firm travel to a displaced people camp in...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Venice 1925. Somebody shoots at two teenagers who jumped a fence to retrieve a ball from Villa Kalman’s garden. A couple of months later, a young man is found severely beaten and unconscious in the shed of the same...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Venice, 1921. Rachele Modiano Mendes faces the daunting challenge of being a married woman practising law. Her first civil case turns into a web of fraud, blackmail, and murder. Faced with the doubts of the court and the police,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1899
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesn’t matter—only that they made an enemy...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1933
It is the summer of 1933. Set against a backdrop of the sparkling Venetian lagoon, young and naïve Irma Lietzen, the pretty and indulged daughter of a Budapest businessman, is being taken to see the world by her parents....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1943 onwards
1943 Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini’s laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart. But when the Germans occupy Venice, she must flee the city to save her life. Lidia joins the partisans in the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Best friends Ashley and Juliet, who’ve been made redundant from their marketing jobs during Covid, at last get to go to Venice. The long days of lockdown were made a little easier by looking at webcams of the deserted...
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