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The Terracotta Dog

The Terracotta Dog
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

“The Terracotta Dog” opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano gives to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily – she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who...

The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro

The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1960s

A young American walks into Sicily’s Palazzo d’Oro during the ’60s. Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their affair – formal and...

A House in Sicily

A House in Sicily
  • Author(s): Luisa Adorno, Ann Goldstein (translator)
  • Location(s): Sicily, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

A sun soaked, hilarious mediation on family life in mid-century Italy – and one of the most exciting rediscovered classics in years. During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of...

A House in Sicily

A House in Sicily
  • Author(s): Daphne Phelps
  • Location(s): Taormina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Post WW2

This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the “most beautiful house in Sicily.” For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English...

A Nest of Vipers

A Nest of Vipers
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The latest in the New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series, has Montalbano investigating the death of wealthy accountant Cosimo Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses and family secrets. Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious food,...

A Sicilian Affair

A Sicilian Affair
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Modern day

A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what Catie is looking for from her Sicilian escape. When Catie meets handsome Giancarlo, she has stumbled across a love that could last forever… If only she can admit...

A Voice in the Night

A Voice in the Night
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by...

An Italian Island Summer

An Italian Island Summer
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Will one summer in Sicily change her life for ever? After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy....

Angelica’s Smile

Angelica’s Smile
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Angelica’s Smile is the seventeenth novel in the gripping and darkly funny Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. When members of Vigàta’s elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries, Inspector Montalbano reluctantly takes the case. It...

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