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- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...