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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...

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...

Beneath the Lion’s Wings

Beneath the Lion’s Wings
  • Author(s): Marie Ohanesian Nardin
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After years of focusing on her career and neglecting her love life, Victoria meets a handsome gondolier while vacationing in Venice and decides to take another chance on romance. Victoria Greco has given up on finding love. A thirtysomething...

Betrayal in Venice

Betrayal in Venice
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

Immerse yourself in the beauty, mystery, and melancholy of Venice in this poignant novel about the cost of keeping secrets. Glen Butler finds his life forever altered when he saves a young woman in Venice at the end of...

Carnival for the Dead

Carnival for the Dead
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carnival for the Dead is a suspenseful spin-off from the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. In Venice the past was more reticent. Beyond the tourist sights, San Marco and the Rialto,...

Carnival of Lies

Carnival of Lies
  • Author(s): D V Bishop
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1539

(Cesare Aldo series Book 5) Venice. Winter, 1539. When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence – with his life, if necessary. The deadly attack...

Ciao, Sandro

Ciao, Sandro
  • Author(s): Steven Varni, Luciano Lozano (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contmporary

Meet Sandro! As the loyal first mate to gondolier Nicola, Sandro knows everything about his home, the beautiful city of Venice. Sandro and Nicola go everywhere together. But today, Sandro is venturing out on his own for the first...

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