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The silver Pigs

The silver Pigs
  • Author(s): Lindsey Davis
  • 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.

The Villa of Mysteries

The Villa of Mysteries
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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...

This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • 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...

The View from the Tower

The View from the Tower
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • 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...

Any Human Face

Any Human Face
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • 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...

Rome in Love

Rome in Love
  • Author(s): Anita Hughes
  • 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...

The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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...

The Marco Chronicles

The Marco Chronicles
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Geoghegan
  • 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)

Antony and Cleopatra (Masters of Rome – 7)
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • 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,...

Blood and Beauty

Blood and Beauty
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • 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...

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