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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 Funeral in Fiesole

A Funeral in Fiesole
  • Author(s): Rosanne Dingli
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present time

Paola, Nigel, Suzanna and Brod are four adult siblings whose mother has died at their old childhood holiday home in Italy. They gather for her funeral, bringing emotional and personal burdens that hark back to when they were all...

A Noble Radiance

A Noble Radiance
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): The Dolomites, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Commissario Brunetti 7 In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a deserted farmhouse, which has been untouched for decades. While the body is badly decomposed, a valuable...

A Question of Belief

A Question of Belief
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Venice is sweltering in a heat wave, and Leon’s doughty copper is looking forward to getting away from the city and relaxing with his family in the relative cool of the mountains. But his colleague Ispettore Vianello has other...

A Refiner’s Fire

A Refiner’s Fire
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s campi, the son of a local...

A Spy Like Me

A Spy Like Me
  • Author(s): Kim Sherwood
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he...

Abigail of Venice

Abigail of Venice
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

A sixteenth-century Jewish woman flees persecution and an abusive marriage in this historical saga from “a brilliant talent” (Jeffery Deaver). When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack...

Alibi

Alibi
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and forget the horrors he witnessed as a US...

All the Lost Places

All the Lost Places
  • Author(s): Amanda Dykes
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1807/1904

Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully...

Ascension

Ascension
  • Author(s): Gregory Dowling
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1700s

Venice in 1749. The city has lost its political and financial primacy but has become Europe’s pleasure capital, famous for its gambling dens, its courtesans, its hectic carnival, its music, art and theatre – and the most highly organised...

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