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Flowers Over the Inferno

Flowers Over the Inferno
  • Author(s): Ilaria Tuti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a quiet village surrounded by the imposing Italian Alps, a series of brutal assaults take place. Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is called in when the first body is found. Soon more victims are discovered – all horrifically mutilated...

The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains
  • Author(s): Paolo Cognetti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become. Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in...

A Hundred Million Years and a Day

A Hundred Million Years and a Day
  • Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Andrea
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Stan has been hunting for fossils since the age of six. Now, in the summer of 1954, he hears a story he cannot forget: the skeleton of a huge creature – a veritable dragon – lies deep in an...

Snow, Dog, Foot

Snow, Dog, Foot
  • Author(s): Claudio Morandini
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first. Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to...

What Happens in the Alps

What Happens in the Alps
  • Author(s): T A Williams
  • Location(s): Valle d'Aosta
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sparkling romantic comedy guaranteed to have you dreaming of finding love amidst the snow-covered mountains

The Ice-Cream Makers

The Ice-Cream Makers
  • Author(s): Ernest Van der Kwast
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for...

Black Run

Black Run
  • Author(s): Antonio Manzini
  • Location(s): Champoluc, Valle d'Aosta
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series. The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice...

The Shoemaker’s Wife

The Shoemaker’s Wife
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Italian Alps, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century going forward

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few...

A Noble Radiance

A Noble Radiance
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): The Dolomites, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Commissario Brunetti 7 In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites, a grave is discovered by the owner of a deserted farmhouse, which has been untouched for decades. While the body is badly decomposed, a valuable...

A Winter Wedding Adventure

A Winter Wedding Adventure
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): Italian Alps, Salzburg
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adventure guide Kira Watling is not a natural with guest lists and flower arranging… But the destination wedding agency she works for always goes above and beyond. And it’s her job to escort an important guest from Salzburg to...

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