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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...
The Case of the Missing Madonna
- Location(s): Cannes, Eze, Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating...
- Location(s): England, London, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Travel from the gorgeous English countryside to romantic Venice with the bestselling author of One Last Gift and Always, in December Emily Stone. Every December Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone, and every year she...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1510
Venice, 1510. The world’s greatest artists gather to enjoy fame, fortune, and colour. When a wealthy merchant discovers a mysterious new pigment, he knows it would create a masterpiece in the right hands. For struggling artist Giorgione ‘Zorzo’ Barbarelli,...
The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
- Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 16th Century
The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Venice, the beauty hides secrets that are steeped in darkness. It’s August, and the city is melting under the heat. As locals flee for Ferragosto, retired archivist Arnold Clover plans to enjoy the rare silence – until his...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
After months of planning a romantic holiday getaway in Venice, Paul is blindsided when his five-year marriage suddenly unravels. Fueled by heartbreak, Paul endeavors to take the trip alone. Soon after arriving in Italy, he notices a small, scruffy,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Beth loves everything about living in Venice. The meandering canals and the cobbled streets have captured her heart, so when she loses her job and fears she’ll have to return to England, she’s devastated. When she stumbles upon a...
- Location(s): Venice, Vienna
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary / 18th Century
A centuries-old score. A city built on secrets. A melody that kills. When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1700s
Alvise Marangon is a reluctant spy drawn into the grip of Venice’s powerful secret service. After he is arrested in a tavern brawl, he is summoned to meet its head, the Missier Grande. He is coerced into a top-secret...
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