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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...

A Taste of Italian Sunshine

A Taste of Italian Sunshine
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): Veneto
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jenn has always prided herself on being a city girl – she insists on easy access to good coffee, great food from around the globe, not to mention an easy commute. So, when her job takes her to one...

A Venice Summer

A Venice Summer
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Art conservator Rose Bennet is still reeling from a bad break-up when she is offered a dream job in Venice, restoring an art collection in the Ca’ D’Ambra, a five-hundred-year-old Venetian palazzo. Despite her fears about travelling to a...

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...

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