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- Location(s): Rome, Florence, Portofino
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When famed curator Giovanni Montefiore is shockingly murdered at the Italian Opera in Rome following his bold proclamation regarding the authenticity of the True Cross, there are many suspects, but suspicion falls heavily upon his nephew, Mario Montefiore. With...
- Location(s): Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Etto finds himself adrift in his village on the Italian Riviera. He has recently lost his Brother and Mother and has a tense relationship with his Father, the local butcher. Football is molto grande amongst the inhabitants, but it...
- Location(s): North Italy
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): WW2
October 1944, in the Republic of Salò, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Line, Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht...
- Location(s): Liguria
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
The writer went to live in a small village in Liguria and this is the tail of her experiences amongst ‘mezzadri’ – ‘half people’. She writes about her walks around the villages whose inhabitants left long ago and only...
The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
- Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...
- Location(s): Champoluc, Valle d'Aosta
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series. The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice...
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
- Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...
- Location(s): Helsinki, Trieste
- Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
- Era(s): Post WW2
After a badly wounded sailor with amnesia is discovered washed up on the quay in Trieste after the Second World War, he’s taken back to Helsinki by a Finnish doctor in an attempt to rebuild his identity. Together they...
- Location(s): Italian Alps, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century going forward
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In the bleak Milan suburb of Metanopoli, in the late 1960s, a dead woman is found along the side of the road. Duca Lamberti is a medical doctor who has just been released from prison, where he has spent...
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