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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.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man’s body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice’s Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death – fake...
Bridges of Venice Walking Tours
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This book provides a way to explore Venice, Italy in a manner never before available. The book divides the bridges of Venice into 27 tours. Each tour provides detailed, step-by-step instructions of how to walk from one bridge to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here, a story from his youth there, perhaps grumbling about the tourists, occasionally stopping for a...
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