Blogs in January 1970

These Dark Things 1st January 1970

When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk...

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That Summer in Sicily 1st January 1970

“At villa Donnafugata, long ago is never very far away,” writes bestselling author Marlena de Blasi of the magnificent if somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily that she stumbles upon one summer while traveling with her husband....

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There’s no Home 1st January 1970

It’s 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombed-out city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain...

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The Italian Affair 1st January 1970

After an affair with a married man, Issy believes she will never love again. Fleeing from her pain she ends up in Naples teaching English. There she meets Dan. But Dan is a man with troubles of his own....

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The Potter’s Field 1st January 1970

While Vigàta is wracked by storms, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. Bearing all the marks of an execution style killing, it seems clear that this is,...

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