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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon’s bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th century
American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice’s expatriate set and find a...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern and 18th Century
In the ancient burial ground of San Michele on an island off Venice, a young woman’s casket is prised open, an object wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary story begins. Young academic Daniel Forster arrives in Venice working...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
A dark novella from the master storyteller. Mary and colin are in Venice, struggling with their relationship, and they chance upon Robert. Introducing them to his wife Caroline, it becomes clear that something more sinister is at play.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day. They were abandoned at birth outside the steps of the Ospedale della Pieta, Venice’s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy. Rebellious Chiaretta develops into a dazzling singer, soon becoming...
- Location(s): Lake Como, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Do you have enough romance in your life? Journalist Kirsty Bailey would have to answer no. She has the essential starter kit – a boyfriend – but somehow Joe seems to have skipped the vows of for better/for worse...
- Location(s): Malta, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1575
A novel set in the ghetto of Venice and Malta in 1575. Hannah Levi is a Jewish midwife whose husband, Isaac, is being held as a slave by the Knights of Jerusalem in Malta. Hannah needs to raise money...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century and Modern
In seventeenth century Venice, Alessandra Rossetti, a courtesan, becomes entangled in a dangerous political intrigue that threatens to destroy the Venetian Republic. She alone has the power to reveal a Spanish plot. But to do so would threaten the...
The Venetia Betrayal (Cotton Malone)
- Location(s): Central Asia, Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it – and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international coalition has created...
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