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Coincidentally in Venice

Coincidentally in Venice
  • Author(s): Kate Zarrelli
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Best friends Ashley and Juliet, who’ve been made redundant from their marketing jobs during Covid, at last get to go to Venice. The long days of lockdown were made a little easier by looking at webcams of the deserted...

Dangerous

Dangerous
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th Century

When fiction is fatal… Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then...

Dark Harvest

Dark Harvest
  • Author(s): Orna O'Reilly
  • Location(s): Puglia, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The romantic canals of Venice and the sun-drenched olive groves of Puglia provide diverse Italian backdrops for this story of love and betrayal involving three very different women, toxic neighbours and two men with evil in mind. Claudia, a...

Daughter of Venice

Daughter of Venice
  • Author(s): Donna Jo Napoli
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1500s

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be...

Dead Lagoon

Dead Lagoon
  • Author(s): Michael Dibdin
  • 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...

Death at La Fenice

Death at La Fenice
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • 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...

Don’t Look Now

Don’t Look Now
  • Author(s): Daphne du Maurier
  • 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...

Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Conclusions
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • 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...

Drink & Think Venice

Drink & Think Venice
  • Author(s): Robin Saikia
  • 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...

Earthly Remains

Earthly Remains
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • 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...

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