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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
  • Author(s): Mario Giordano
  • Location(s): Torre Archirafi
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn’t quite the tranquil island she thought it...

Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia
  • Author(s): Lynda La Plante
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Don Roberto Luciano, boss of the Sicilian Mafia, agrees to be chief witness in the trial of Paul Carolla, who murdered Luciano’s firstborn son, Michael, 20 years ago. Despite round-the-clock protection, all the Luciano men are killed the night...

Blade of Light

Blade of Light
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Blade of Light is the nineteenth gripping addition to the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano Sicilian mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano’s police station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended with a...

Blood Rain

Blood Rain
  • Author(s): Michael Dibdin
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen’s most difficult and...

Borges in Sicily

Borges in Sicily
  • Author(s): Alejandro Luque
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern

When Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs of the Argentinian writer, essayist and poet Luis Borges, taken in Sicily, he decides to trace the writer s journey, setting off with a group of friends on his own Sicilian...

Children of the Volcano

Children of the Volcano
  • Author(s): Ros Belford
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

An uplifting, humorous memoir of a mother building a new life on a beautiful Sicilian island. Reeling from a broken relationship, Ros Belford decides the best chance she has of healing, while giving her daughters a childhood to remember,...

Death at Sea

Death at Sea
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the title story, ‘Death at Sea’, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Andrea Camilleri takes his readers through eight cunning cases from...

Desserted in Sicily

Desserted in Sicily
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Lipari
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five year-old marriage, GILLIAN DOBSON knocks down a few tranquilizers and takes the dreaded flight to the Sicilian island of Lipari to surprise her husband, away on a business trip. Big mistake- he...

Excursion to Tindari

Excursion to Tindari
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The fifth in the hit Italian crime series by Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari is a darkly comic detective story featuring Inspector Montalbano. Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the...

Families of Spies

Families of Spies
  • Author(s): Brian Landers
  • Location(s): Syracuse
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Julia Dylan’s aunt, Eveline Sadeghi, vanishes while sailing from Kefalonia to Syracuse in Sicily. Julia and her new husband Thomas abandon their honeymoon and join the search. In Syracuse they encounter a suspiciously well-informed detective who is investigating the...

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