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Palermo

Palermo
  • Author(s): Roberto Alajmo
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Various

The siren-like qualities of the Sicilian capital are woven layer upon layer, each one revealing a stratum of the city’s character. In Palermo, Robert Alajmo lays out a compelling series of reflections on the city’s apparently endless facets. Disguised...

Riccardino

Riccardino
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. ‘Contrary to what you think, I’m carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let’s do this: if I...

Rounding the Mark

Rounding the Mark
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series. Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even...

Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers

Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers
  • Author(s): Andrew and Suzanne Edwards
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Various

Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily’s violently beautiful...

The Wire and the Lines

The  Wire and the Lines
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Calabria, Puglia, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Can Jox escape imprisonment and get back into the war…? Summer, 1943 When fighter pilot Jox McNabb crashes on the wrong side of the straits of Messina, he is captured by the Germans. It seems that for Jox, the...

The Age of Doubt

The Age of Doubt
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Andrea Camilleri’s sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigàta harbour – and into a puzzling new mystery....

The Caravaggio Conspiracy

The Caravaggio Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Italy, Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1608 and 2014

1608. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found...

The Cook of the Halcyon

The Cook of the Halcyon
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri. Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so...

The Dance of the Seagull

The Dance of the Seagull
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Dance of the Seagull is the fifteenth darkly humorous adventure starring Inspector Montalbano from bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull which falls...

The Day Of The Owl

The Day Of The Owl
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed,...

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