Blogs in December 2024

Death in the Dolomites 7th December 2024

(Rick Montoya Italian Mysteries Book 2) Rick Montoya is looking forward to a break from his translation business in Rome—a week of skiing in the Italian Alps with old college buddy Flavio. But Rick’s success helping the Italian police...

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Things That Crash, Things That Fly 19th March 2021

As a husband and wife plan an Italian vacation with friends—to visit her family’s Tuscan village—she makes a last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him when they return. And her bombshell includes a caveat. He isn’t...

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A Hundred Million Years and a Day 1st May 2020

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...

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Snow, Dog, Foot 15th February 2020

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...

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky 18th October 2019

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs,...

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