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Wanderers

Wanderers
  • Author(s): Edward Belfar
  • Location(s): Baltimore, Kenya, Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of short stories that focus exquisitely on humanity.

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...

When in Rome

When in Rome
  • Author(s): Penelope Green
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

With her thirtieth birthday on the horizon and her safe and comfortable life in Sydney outside her front door, Penelope Green decided it was now or never. Undaunted by the fact she spoke absolutely no Italian, had no job,...

Death and Restoration

Death and Restoration
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Europe, Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A tip-off without any names and a theft with no obvious motive – these are the apparently innocuous matters currently in the hands of Flavia di Stefano of Rome’s Art Theft Squad. Flavia is able to disturb the looters...

A Knock at the Door

A Knock at the Door
  • Author(s): Tom Wood
  • Location(s): New York State, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They ask for your husband. They just want to talk. THEY’RE LYING. Your husband isn’t who he says he is, say the people at your door. Come with us. Don’t trust them, says a voice on the phone. Run....

A Season for the Dead

A Season for the Dead
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

A murder in a reading room at the Vatican, and two bodies in a nearby church. Nic Costa, a young policeman, art connoisseur and son of a communist is asked to investigate. As he delves deeper into the murders...

Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati–dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism–is alive, well, and murderously active....

Carissima

Carissima
  • Author(s): Rosanna Chiofalo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Astoria, New York and Rome, we meet a range of Italian-Americans, all trying to find their way in families steeped in Italian history. Not easy.

Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Clash of Civilisations over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
  • Author(s): Amara Lakhous
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

A small, culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the centre of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbours is murdered. As each of the victim’s neighbours is questioned, the reader is offered an...

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art...

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