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- 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,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): The second half of the 15th Century
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer from Germany is setting...
- Location(s): Salo, Pellestrina
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
A World War II love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He’s happy to stay out of the way of the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been...
The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Charlie Howard – struggling crime-writer by day, talented thief by night – has gone straight. But holing himself up in a crumbling palazzo in Venice to concentrate on his next novel hasn’t got rid of the itch in his...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired to find the rightful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
this is the fantastical tale of Henri–Napoleon’s cook–and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier’s daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest – a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad...
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