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The Rome Affair

The Rome Affair
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s and 2017

The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan. 1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door...

The Rome Apartment

The Rome Apartment
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

As I stood on the terrace and gazed out over the most glorious view, he studied my face and said to me ‘Why do you look sad? No-one should be sad in Rome. We only have this one life,...

The Rome Plague Diaries

The Rome Plague Diaries
  • Author(s): Matthew Kneale
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early Summer 2020

On the first morning of Rome’s Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was happening and what it felt like, and sent it...

The Rome Prophecy

The Rome Prophecy
  • Author(s): Jon Trace
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller

A woman is arrested in Rome, covered in blood. She is running from an omnipotent power, that has ruled for centuries in the city Tom Shaman, a former priest,together with a female colleague,to unravel what has been going on.But...

The silver Pigs

The silver Pigs
  • Author(s): Lindsey Davis
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 60s70s AD

A series of detective stories featuring Marcus Didius Falco. A strong plot and likeable character in this, the first of the Falco historical novels.

The Soldier of Raetia

The Soldier of Raetia
  • Author(s): Heather Domin
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 10 BC

Rome, 10BC. Manilus Dardanus, a new soldier from the provinces, applies for a military sponsorship with Cassius Valerian, the general of a small legion patrolling the northern frontier. Idealistic and naive, Dardanus has a lot to learn about the...

The Third Secret

The Third Secret
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Europe, Romania, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Various

What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after...

The Villa of Mysteries

The Villa of Mysteries
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She’s wrong. Leo...

The Warrior’s Princess

The Warrior’s Princess
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): England, Rome, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 100AD

Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years...

The White Devil

The White Devil
  • Author(s): Domenic Stansberry
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

In the hot, shadowy streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson’s lovers keep turning up dead. Vittoria, as she’s known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas and followed her fading writer...

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