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The Flight Attendant

The Flight Attendant
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Rome, Dubai, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing....

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Europe, Romania, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after...

Lustrum

Lustrum
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 60s BC

Rome, with Cicero, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus – are the central playes in the quest for power. These real historicacal figures (and others, including the psychopathic Catilina) are stirred into a very heady brew by the author when the...

A Cold Flame

A Cold Flame
  • Author(s): Aidan Conway
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Play with fire and you get burned… A gripping crime thriller, from a new star in British crime fiction. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin. Five men burnt alive. In the crippling heat of August in Rome, a flat...

A Poisoner’s Tale

A Poisoner’s Tale
  • Author(s): Cathryn Kemp
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Rome, 1656 In the shadowy backstreets of the Eternal City lies an apothecary – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot readings to tell their fortunes. An undetectable poison that can kill...

Agrippa

Agrippa
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 100BCE forward

Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. To claim Octavius’s...

Amore and Pinot Grigio: A Guido la Vespa Christmas Tale

Amore and Pinot Grigio: A Guido la Vespa Christmas Tale
  • Author(s): Veronica Bell
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love story set in Rome featuring a pink Vespa named Guido. Canadian woman and an Italian man meet while rescuing an injured cat. They are attracted to each other but the road to a happy ending requires a few...

Angelica’s Time Machine

Angelica’s Time Machine
  • Author(s): Julian Bradbrook
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern and historical

Angelica is a young girl with a great talent for science and technology. Her father’s home office is filled with electronics and gadgets from which Angelica creates her own time machine. She travels through time and space on some...

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
  • Author(s): Rudy Rucker
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Brussels, Rome
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Sixteenth century Europe as depicted on Peter Bruegel’s canvasses. A street festival, skating, hunting in the snow are everyday life. Rucker tells the story of an artist, whose own life is little known. We follow the artist from the...

Beach Music

Beach Music
  • Author(s): Pat Conroy
  • Location(s): Rome, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

With the spectacular worldwide success of his unforgettable novel The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy established himself as a major international writer. He is known for his anguished and painfully honest insights into families and the human heart. He...

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