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The Night Villa

The Night Villa
  • Author(s): Carol Goodman
  • Location(s): Pompeii, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to AD 79

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers...

The Volcano Lover

The Volcano Lover
  • Author(s): Susan Sontag
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Sir William Hamilton, English Ambassador is at the Court of Naples in the late 18th century. During his stay, and after the death of his wife he becomes the protector of Emma, his nephew’s erstwhils mistress,then her lover, then...

The House in Via Gemito

The House in Via Gemito
  • Author(s): Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (Translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the...

The Kill

The Kill
  • Author(s): Richard House
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired...

The Traitor’s Wife

The Traitor’s Wife
  • Author(s): Sarah Steele
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / WW2

The spellbinding new book from the USA Today bestselling author of The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Paris Library. Naples 1943 Luisa Giordano has faced many losses: her mother to a deadly...

The Wedding Officer

The Wedding Officer
  • Author(s): Anthony Capella
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Italy during the war, tantalising italian food, a beautiful novel, war is raging and Mussolini is in power….

These Dark Things

These Dark Things
  • Author(s): Jan Merete Weiss
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk...

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art...

Pompeii

Pompeii
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century

A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome’s richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous...

The Italian Affair

The Italian Affair
  • Author(s): Helen Crossfield
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

After an affair with a married man, Issy believes she will never love again. Fleeing from her pain she ends up in Naples teaching English. There she meets Dan. But Dan is a man with troubles of his own....

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