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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As he is...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The twisted maze of Venice’s canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 20th century
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter’s death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Present
Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks to choose from―cocktails, aperitivos, wines from the Venice hinterland and around the Adriatic, spirits from the foothills...
- Location(s): Venice, Sant'Erasmo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Venice 1947. Countess Pesaro De Bonfili is searching for the legitimate heirs of Raffaele and Sylvia Mustaki, a couple who did not survive Nazi camps. Two researchers from a Venetian law firm travel to a displaced people camp in...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): 15th century
In Venice in 1487, the secrets of glassblowing are guarded jealously. Renzo, a twelve-year-old laborer in a glassworks, has just a few months to prepare for a test of his abilities, and no one to teach him. If he...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): 2018 looking back over 20 years
He’s the old flame she’s tried to put out. But should they rekindle their love—one more time? When bestselling romance novelist Olivia Sackville arrives at Venice’s prestigious winter literary festival, she’s prepared for everything except seeing Leo Greene—Britain’s number-one...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
- Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...
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