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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1980s
It begins with a troubling encounter on a flight to Venice. She is a Roman aristocrat and art dealer on the search for undervalued paintings and he a mysterious tour guide. She is invited to cosmopolitan parties by Venetian...
- Location(s): United States (USA), Venice, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern day
‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING’ Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding ‘ONE OF THE MOST LIFE-AFFIRMING NOVELS I’VE READ IN A LONG WHILE’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, bestselling author of Vox Your fate arrives in a box on your doorstep. Do you...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From his office on the Street of the Assassins, Nathan Sutherland, English Honorary Consul to Venice, assists unfortunate tourists as best he can. A steady but unexciting life that dramatically changes when he is offered a large sum of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland’s birthday is about to be ruined. A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience –...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Jack Squire is a successful currency trader on business in Venice. Haunted by recent events in his life, he takes to walking the streets at midnight. He meets the ethereal Caterina, a woman who seems to bear the sadness...
Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1992
Struggling to forget a crumbling marriage, Anna Lucia Lottol comes to Venice to visit an old friend, but instead of finding solace, she is dragged into a police station and accused of murdering a money-laundering count with whom she...
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Location(s): Varanasi, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book is in 2 parts – the first part is set during the Biennale, journalist Jeff drinks and snorts his way in and out of social events, and has a short affair with Laura, an American gallery director....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Modern, 1600s
Wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author, which tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 1500s
1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
A love story centred around an older couple (the author’s story), and lots of food and recipes throughout the book, as she searches for the best ingredients along the atmospheric canals and byways and piazze.