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Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
  • Author(s): Lucy Riall
  • Location(s): Bronte
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860

During the tumultuous events that shook Italy in the year 1860 – the point at which the nation was unified – there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter,...

Voice of the Violin

Voice of the Violin
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano

The Sister in Law

The Sister in Law
  • Author(s): Sue Watson
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

THE WIFE: Clare is ready for a break. It’s been a tough year and now she wants to put her feet up. Arriving at the Italian villa for their summer holiday, she decides it’s high time her husband and...

Fat Chance

Fat Chance
  • Author(s): Malla Duncan
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The Amalfi coast in Italy with its delightful villages, beaches and sunshine hides a darker secret. When Marsha and Milly arrive for a friend’s anniversary celebration, they hardly expect to find themselves embroiled in the search for a serial...

Last Voyage of the Valentina

Last Voyage of the Valentina
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 1970s

An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these...

My Husband’s Killer

My Husband’s Killer
  • Author(s): Laura Marshall
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, South East England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends – and one new face. By the end...

That Summer in Ischia

That Summer in Ischia
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): Ischia, Italy
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1970s, modern

1979 and two young women become au pairs to two Italian families. They are in search of excitement and romance, but one of their charges goes missing they come under suspicion from the police. The cracks in their friendship...

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners

The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Capri, Newport (R I)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle...

The House in Via Gemito

The House in Via Gemito
  • Author(s): Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (Translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the...

The Kill

The Kill
  • Author(s): Richard House
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the murder seems to have been inspired...

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