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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern/16th Century
A glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 16th Century
- Location(s): Florence, London, Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
‘An artistic voyage in crime – thrilling and original’ Julia Blake is a conservator, working with classic art. Her expertise includes imaging beneath the surface of paintings to discover what lies beneath. She is sure that a number of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance (16th century)
To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A Banker is found dead, dressed as a transvestite prostitute. Two more deaths follow. And Brunetti is seraching for the connection and perpertrator. Set in glorious Venice, each page is like walking down another Campo.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesn’t matter—only that they made an enemy...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th Century
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance (late 15th century)
It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors about an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist’s dream, with recipes for gold, immortality, and undying love. But while...
The Book of Venice (Reading The City)
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
With its gondola-filled canals and beautiful architecture, the floating city of Venice is unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a city where apparent opposites intersect; at once aquatic and terrestrial, past and present, east and west, spiritual...
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