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Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Dust
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Mordern day
Venice sets the stage for a diamond caper gone wrong, where everyone is someone else, and no one can be trusted. During her Venetian trip to participate in an international art exhibition, Carla Romano brings along her deceased friend’s...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
- Era(s): 21st Century
The mysterious allure of the ancient floating city of Venice is captured in this book of evocative photography and beguiling words of a diverse group of contemporary Venetophiles. The luminous photographs, in both color and black and white, compliment...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dream of Venice Architecture is an intimate journey through the remarkable Venetian urban landscape. A cadre of 36 notable international architects and architectural writers explore the elements that make Venice unique in the world. Dream of Venice Architecture reveals...
Dream of Venice in Black and White
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dream of Venice in Black and White reveals Venice as a narrative in chiaroscuro. Over 50 photographers have documented the city to create a visual legacy of elegant realism in light and shadow. The acclaimed Italian author Tiziano Scarpa...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli. Now, many years later, Flavia...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s, 1990s, and contemporary
At his beloved Nonno Paolo’s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s - WW2 - 1950s
1923 Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone to find her a husband. He’s taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home-made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 15th century
In this tale of mystery and the supernatural, Laura Rahme evokes a Venice long forgotten. From the dark sottoporticos of the Arsenal, to the wealthy mansions of Castello, and deep within the secret passages of the Ducal Palace, The...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day...