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- 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...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The entrancing and seductive new novel from the acclaimed author of ECHOES OF WAR A British diplomat living in Venice in the aftermath of WWI, Hugh Thurne is in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend’s...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is...
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): Portofino, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Largely set in World War II, Verona, both before and during the German Occupation. Elodie Bertolotti is a very gifted young cellist who becomes involved in the Italian Resistance movement. She plays her cello but everything changes when her...
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