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- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical
- Era(s): 60s70s AD
A series of detective stories featuring Marcus Didius Falco. A strong plot and likeable character in this, the first of the Falco historical novels.
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She’s wrong. Leo...
- Location(s): Rome, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Should first love be left in the past, or is first love, forever love… Sisters Annie and Jess are used to their mother Julia being spontaneous. But when Julia announces she’s flying off to Rome to meet her first...
- Location(s): Rome, Turin (Torino)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2004 and 1978
“Can she trust them? Can you?” A psychological thriller about love and betrayal, and the damage done when ideals and human lives come into conflict. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover when a gunman murders her...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand-book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos among the possessions of his ex-lover, Michel: the images – possibly from police...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern and 1950s
When Amelia Tate is cast to play the Audrey Hepburn role in a remake of Roman Holiday, she feels as if all her dreams have come true. She has a handsome boyfriend, is portraying her idol in a major...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realize that there is much more to the accident than he had first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise’s...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman’s romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in the eternal city. Handsome, charming Roman men; perfectly made...
Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome – 7)
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC
Rome is divided once again, and Caesar is dead. Lepidus is in Africa, Antony rules the East, Octavian the West, and with it Rome. Two heirs apparent to the throne of Rome. Cleopatra has her eye on Rome too,...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy...