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The Track of Sand

The Track of Sand
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri’s twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no...

The Triumph of the Lions

The Triumph of the Lions
  • Author(s): Howard Curtis (Translator), Katherine Gregor (translator), Stefania Auci
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

(A Lions of Sicily Book Book 2) Known as the Lions of Sicily, the Florios have officially arrived. Once rich only in ambition, the family has amassed a fortune that includes palaces, factories, ships, silks, and jewels. The city...

The Unwilding

The Unwilding
  • Author(s): Marina Kemp
  • Location(s): Appalachians, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made it. And yet as the week unfolds it is not Don but his children and unknowable wife, Lydia,...

The Vulcan and the Straits

The Vulcan and the Straits
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Algeria, Malta, Sicily, Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Can Jox lead his squadron to victory…? Autumn, 1942 Fighter pilot, Jox McNabb has survived the desert and the second battle of El Alamein, but now No. 111 Squadron is heading into a fresh new storm. They embark on...

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands
  • Author(s): Giorgio Vasta
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a...

Torn

Torn
  • Author(s): Karen Moore
  • Location(s): Sicily, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young English woman is forced to face the dark world of Sicilian organised crime in a desperate race against time in this gritty contemporary thriller, a story of intrigue and betrayal. Like any mother, Hanna would do anything...

Under A Sicilian Sky

Under A Sicilian Sky
  • Author(s): Lisa Hobman
  • Location(s): Sicily, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Global box office sensation, Ruby Locke, is a long way from her Yorkshire roots. Together with her fiancé, movie heartthrob Tyler Harrison, they are Hollywood’s new glitterati. Overnight, Ruby’s life implodes when her social media accounts are hacked with...

Under the Blazing Sun

Under the Blazing Sun
  • Author(s): Jenny Lund Madsen
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut – and she’s out of ideas. After a mortifying TV interview, her agent ships her off to a sun-drenched Sicilian...

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