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The Island Escape

The Island Escape
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Corsica, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Can one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Fans of Veronica Henry and Erica James, this is the next book to add to your reading list. It’s time to get back to where it all began… Octavia Sheldon...

The Italian Matchmaker

The Italian Matchmaker
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Do you believe in love after death? Gianluca has to admit his life is empty. His high-pressure City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends – all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over and he...

The Night Villa

The Night Villa
  • Author(s): Carol Goodman
  • Location(s): Pompeii, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to AD 79

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers...

The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

The Patience of the Spider

The Patience of the Spider
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano is recovering from injuries sustained in his previous adventure, in the Rounding of the Mark… However a local girl is kidnapped and Montalbano is called on to the case,

The Scent of the Night

The Scent of the Night
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is no. 6 in the Inspector Montalbano series and it might be worth reading them in order to get the full benefit. The owner and manager of a financial enterprise disappears, and thousands of people in the Vigatá...

The Treasure Hunt

The Treasure Hunt
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. ‘What’s in there, Chief?’ ‘If it’s what I think, it’s something so horrific that it’ll haunt your dreams for the rest...

The Volcano Lover

The Volcano Lover
  • Author(s): Susan Sontag
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Sir William Hamilton, English Ambassador is at the Court of Naples in the late 18th century. During his stay, and after the death of his wife he becomes the protector of Emma, his nephew’s erstwhils mistress,then her lover, then...

There’s no Home

There’s no Home
  • Author(s): Alexander Baron
  • Location(s): Catania
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1943

It’s 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombed-out city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain...

To Each His Own

To Each His Own
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. The story begins with a double-murder. A local pharmacist get a  death threat in the mail, cut and pasted from a newspaper. Murder...

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