Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

A Noble Radiance

A Noble Radiance
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): The Dolomites, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Commissario Brunetti 7 In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a deserted farmhouse, which has been untouched for decades. While the body is badly decomposed, a valuable...

A Problematic Love

A Problematic Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Eight years after her fiancé was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...

A Small Place in Italy

A Small Place in Italy
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): Liguria, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return...

A Winter Wedding Adventure

A Winter Wedding Adventure
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): Italian Alps, Salzburg
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adventure guide Kira Watling is not a natural with guest lists and flower arranging… But the destination wedding agency she works for always goes above and beyond. And it’s her job to escort an important guest from Salzburg to...

An Off-Piste Christmas

An Off-Piste Christmas
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Cortina d'Ampezzo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The last thing Harriet Westmoreland wants is Christmas away from home, particularly when skiing, snow, heights and freezing her backside off are on the menu. While her own family, together with her best friend Grace’s, are soon whizzing down...

Artifacts

Artifacts
  • Author(s): Natalie Lemle
  • Location(s): Italy, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For readers of The Cloisters and Counterfeit, Natalie Lemle’s debut novel offers an insider’s view into the world of stolen artifacts and the hidden networks that link museums to organized crime, when a woman is forced to remember the...

Bay of Killers

Bay of Killers
  • Author(s): Paul Sinclair
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, Gulf of La Spezia (Bay of Poets)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2018

NATO – once an impregnable fortress of Western military power, now just another victim of cyber-terrorism… Grant Perkins is starting to feel restless. The cosy cottage, the writing career, the ageing mother in Eastbourne – it’s all becoming humdrum,...

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
  • Author(s): Mark Sullivan
  • Location(s): Milan, Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs,...

Blood in the Snow

Blood in the Snow
  • Author(s): Franco Marks
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Marzio Santoni left behind the brutal crimes of the big city long ago. Valdiluce is a quiet ski resort, where all he needs is the peace, quiet and his trusty vespa. At first glance, the town inhabitants are as...

Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi

Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi
  • Author(s): Marek Z Turner
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Some people make crime pay, Gigi barely makes enough to cover the rent. Through a series of vignettes, flash fiction and short stories, Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi charts the adventures of Gianluigi ‘Gigi’ Moretti, a talented criminal...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now