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Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Dust

Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Dust
  • Author(s): Pamela Allegretto
  • 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...

Dream of Venice

Dream of Venice
  • Author(s): JoAnn Locktov (Editor), Frances Mayes
  • 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...

Dream of Venice Architecture

Dream of Venice Architecture
  • Author(s): JoAnn Locktov (Editor), Richard J Goy
  • 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

Dream of Venice in Black and White
  • Author(s): JoAnn Locktov (Editor), Tiziano Scarpa
  • 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...

Falling in Love

Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • 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...

The Borgia Portrait

The Borgia Portrait
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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...

The Garden of Angels

The Garden of Angels
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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...

The Madonna of The Mountains

The Madonna of The Mountains
  • Author(s): Elise Valmorbida
  • 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...

The Mascherari

The Mascherari
  • Author(s): Laura Rahme
  • 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...

The Medici Murders

The Medici Murders
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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...

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