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An Off-Piste Christmas

An Off-Piste Christmas
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Cortina d'Ampezzo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The last thing Harriet Westmoreland wants is Christmas away from home, particularly when skiing, snow, heights and freezing her backside off are on the menu. While her own family, together with her best friend Grace’s, are soon whizzing down...

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
  • Author(s): Mark Sullivan
  • Location(s): Milan, Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs,...

Blood in the Snow

Blood in the Snow
  • Author(s): Franco Marks
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Marzio Santoni left behind the brutal crimes of the big city long ago. Valdiluce is a quiet ski resort, where all he needs is the peace, quiet and his trusty vespa. At first glance, the town inhabitants are as...

Dead Men Don’t Ski

Dead Men Don’t Ski
  • Author(s): Patricia Moyes
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Inspector Tibbett Book 1) Inspector Henry Tibbett is taking a much-needed holiday from his job at Scotland Yard with his wife Emmy. Headed for a spot of skiing in the Italian Dolomites and some first-class people-watching, Tibbett’s worries blissfully...

Death in the Dolomites

Death in the Dolomites
  • Author(s): David P Wagner
  • Location(s): Italy, The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Rick Montoya Italian Mysteries Book 2) Rick Montoya is looking forward to a break from his translation business in Rome—a week of skiing in the Italian Alps with old college buddy Flavio. But Rick’s success helping the Italian police...

Rapids

Rapids
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an ‘introduction to white water.’ Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents seem set to enjoy what their leader insists on...

The Duke

The Duke
  • Author(s): Matteo Melchiorre, Antonella Lettieri (Translator)
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 Outside Vallorgana, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the ‘Duke’ lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries’ old line of the...

The Man in the Woods

The Man in the Woods
  • Author(s): Ilaria Tuti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH ONE OF M. W. CRAVEN’S BOOKS OF 2019 A ruthless killer is spreading panic in a quiet village in the Italian Alps. Police Inspector Teresa Battaglia is the only one who can...

The Mountain

The Mountain
  • Author(s): Luca D'Andrea
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Jeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now the depression and the nightmares are closing in. Only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara...

The Palazzo

The Palazzo
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Successful beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Vivi’s little sister is flying in from Brisbane with her sixteen-year-old twins...

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