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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 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 Life Lost

A Life Lost
  • Author(s): Holley Martlew
  • Location(s): Athens, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

A thrilling historical novel spanning Venice, Athens and Istanbul, featuring a passionate love affair, a priceless secret buried for centuries and a mystery that could destroy everything. When an English writer meets the fifth-generation owner of a glass foundry...

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...

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