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That Summer in Sicily

That Summer in Sicily
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she stumbles upon one summer while traveling with her husband....

The Golden Tide

The Golden Tide
  • Author(s): John Guy
  • Location(s): Noto, Ortigia (Isola)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Thriller

Green activist Simone struggles with her beliefs when she meets journalist Michiel, who shows her how an oil spill threatening Sicily is a bonanza for many locals. Compensation and clean-up money floods into the community, creating conflicts between politicians,...

The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

The Patience of the Spider

The Patience of the Spider
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano is recovering from injuries sustained in his previous adventure, in the Rounding of the Mark… However a local girl is kidnapped and Montalbano is called on to the case,

The Scent of the Night

The Scent of the Night
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is no. 6 in the Inspector Montalbano series and it might be worth reading them in order to get the full benefit. The owner and manager of a financial enterprise disappears, and thousands of people in the Vigatá...

The Treasure Hunt

The Treasure Hunt
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. ‘What’s in there, Chief?’ ‘If it’s what I think, it’s something so horrific that it’ll haunt your dreams for the rest...

There’s no Home

There’s no Home
  • Author(s): Alexander Baron
  • Location(s): Catania
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1943

It’s 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombed-out city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain...

To Each His Own

To Each His Own
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. The story begins with a double-murder. A local pharmacist get a  death threat in the mail, cut and pasted from a newspaper. Murder...

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
  • Author(s): Lucy Riall
  • Location(s): Bronte
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860

During the tumultuous events that shook Italy in the year 1860 – the point at which the nation was unified – there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter,...

Voice of the Violin

Voice of the Violin
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano

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