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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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
- 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...
- Location(s): Italy, London, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
WELCOME TO LA DOLCE VITA OF 1950s ROME Vivien Lowry’s latest play has opened to a rapturous reception from audiences in London’s West End. However, the critics’ savage reviews soon call into question her entire career. So, when the...
- Location(s): England, Italy, Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed ‘Giotto’, is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 40s AD
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, (Claudius) is a historian, a stutterer, crippled, and widely seen to be stupid. Claudius is isolated from the treachery of the Roman court during the years immediately after the death of Christ, and avoids...
- Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....
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