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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Medieval period onwards
Medieval travelers were overwhelmed by Venice’s affluence – the sacks of spices! the bales of brocades! – and driven to distraction by its seeming paradoxes. The city was surrounded by sand and mud, yet its markets dazzled with variety....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Venice has to be the world’s most heartstoppingly beautiful and haunting city. For visitors and inhabitants over the centuries it’s always been a place rich in history, romance, mystery and intrigue. For writers, artists, filmmakers and others it has...
- Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
- Era(s): Contemporary
Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...
- Location(s): Hampshire, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod – no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends. And as...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1504
16th Century/Modern Venice: Grappling her own demons and the after-effects of a disaster, Fern battles to keep hold of her sanity as she’s snatched back in time and lives the life of Cecilia, a young woman at the court...
- Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century
Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Robert arrives in Venice leaving the manipulative and wealthy Curran, his family and the Romanian emigre Anna behind. He soon discovers, however, that they have followed him and are all staying in the Pensione Sofia hotel, which harbours a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination. THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Commissario Guido Brunetti is kicking his heels, pondering the recent lack of crime in Venice, when a beautiful young woman appears at his office door. Now calling herself Maria Testa, his visitor is more familiar to Brunetti as Suor’lmmacolata,...
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