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Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia
  • Author(s): Lynda La Plante
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Don Roberto Luciano, boss of the Sicilian Mafia, agrees to be chief witness in the trial of Paul Carolla, who murdered Luciano’s firstborn son, Michael, 20 years ago. Despite round-the-clock protection, all the Luciano men are killed the night...

Palermo

Palermo
  • Author(s): Roberto Alajmo
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Various

The siren-like qualities of the Sicilian capital are woven layer upon layer, each one revealing a stratum of the city’s character. In Palermo, Robert Alajmo lays out a compelling series of reflections on the city’s apparently endless facets. Disguised...

The Caravaggio Conspiracy

The Caravaggio Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alex Connor
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Italy, Palermo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1608 and 2014

1608. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found...

The Poisoner’s Tale

The Poisoner’s Tale
  • Author(s): Cathryn Kemp
  • Location(s): Palermo, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s

Murderer or saviour? You decide. . . Rome, 1656 In the shadowy backstreets of the Eternal City lies an apothecary – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot readings to tell their...

The Storytellers

The Storytellers
  • Author(s): Caron McKinlay
  • Location(s): Mondello, Edinburgh, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Trapped between life and the afterlife, three women meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives—and about themselves. Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki,...

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands
  • Author(s): Giorgio Vasta
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a...

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