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Loyalty

Loyalty
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Loyalty can save a soul — or destroy one. Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class...

The Sicilian Inheritance

The Sicilian Inheritance
  • Author(s): Jo Piazza
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land...

The Hypocrite

The Hypocrite
  • Author(s): Jo Hamya
  • Location(s): Aeolian Islands, London, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010 / 2020

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents? What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children? The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp...

Fire in The Mountain

Fire in The Mountain
  • Author(s): A J Aberford
  • Location(s): Malta, Sicily, Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector George Zammit Series, Book 4 Detective George Zammit of the Maltese Police is sent to Sicily to investigate the disappearance of his superiors niece. There, George discovers a city overshadowed by the mighty Mount Etna, a huge volcano...

The Cook of the Halcyon

The Cook of the Halcyon
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri. Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so...

The Sicilian Method

The Sicilian Method
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri’s twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, a troubling murder invesitgation may see Montalbano find his answers on a theatre’s stage . . . ‘ven the contents of his fridge are described...

The Safety Net

The Safety Net
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta...

The Other End of the Line

The Other End of the Line
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...

The Overnight Kidnapper

The Overnight Kidnapper
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready to find out...

The Pyramid of Mud

The Pyramid of Mud
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy’s finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It’s been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overwhelming the Inspector’s beloved hometown, sweeping across...

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