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Twilight in Venice

Twilight in Venice
  • Author(s): Steven Carroll
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As a teenager, Lucy McBride, is roused from her slumber by the sound of rich, haunting classical music coming from the stereo. It is a life changing moment and from that point she devotes herself to the study of...

Venetian Curiosities

Venetian Curiosities
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a city’s mores, emblems of its identity. In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed...

Venice in the Moonlight

Venice in the Moonlight
  • Author(s): Charles Timoney, Elizabeth McKenna
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Carnival Time 18th Century Venice…… Considered useless by his cold-hearted father, Nico Foscari, eldest son of one of the founding families in Venice, hides his pain behind gambling, drinking and womanizing. After her husband’s untimely demise, Marietta Gatti returns...

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
  • Author(s): Thomas Mann
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

This is the ultimate novella set in Venice, from the master of storytelling. In the decaying city, struggling with an unnamed epidemic, Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. An ode to beauty, and the...

Death in Verona

Death in Verona
  • Author(s): Roy Harley Lewis
  • Location(s): Verona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In the fifth of his critically acclaimed crime novel series featuring Matthew CoIl, the bookseller detective, Roy Harley Lewis turns his attention to one of the truly great love stories, Romeo and Juliet. Although captivated by Shakespeare’s dialogue, Matt...

Divas Don’t Knit

Divas Don’t Knit
  • Author(s): Gil McNeil
  • Location(s): England, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is the same as the Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club. Jo is looking for a new life, after the death of her philandering husband. She decides to up sticks and relocate to the coast and...

The Titian Committee

The Titian Committee
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far. Flavia de...

Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): Anita Brookner
  • Location(s): London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A beautifully crafted book, with an elegant style. Paul Burgess lives a quiet bachelor life in London. To avoid an invitation to spend Christmas with his cousin’s widow, Helena, he decides on a trip to Venice. Here, at age...

A Beautiful Crime

A Beautiful Crime
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind–and it doesn’t involve a vacation. Nick and Clay are running away from their turbulent lives in New...

A Daughter of Fair Verona

A Daughter of Fair Verona
  • Author(s): Christina Dodd
  • Location(s): Verona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1300s

(Daughter of Montague Book 1) ’m the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn’t die in the tomb. They’re alive and well and living in fair Verona with their six wildly impetuous...

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