Italian Crime

A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice.... Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland's birthday is about to be ruined. A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience - and this time it will be so for all the wrong reasons as the curtain call is interrupted by a fatal stabbing. But why is the dead man carrying one of Nathan's business cards in his wallet?

In the seventeenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Brunetti investigates two groups—a Christian sect, and the gypsies—and tries to understand the tragic death of a young girl. When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother, a priest recently...

Una sera, Tom Brenner e il figlio di nove anni vanno al parco divertimenti di Seven Peaks. Come prima tappa scelgono la casa infestata, ma una volta entrati, per quanto possa sembrare impossibile, i due svaniscono. Quando Rebekah Murphy aveva tre anni, un giorno sua madre uscì di casa per non farvi più ritorno. Dopo quasi quarant’anni, Fiona Murphy è ancora annoverata fra le persone scomparse. Fino a quando la figlia non riceve una sua lettera.

Murder is the deadliest art...An invitation to an exclusive event during the Venetian Biennale gives Honorary Consul Nathan Sutherland the perfect chance to drink prosecco in the sunshine and meet some of the greats of the art world. And then a world-famous critic is decapitated by one of the installations in the British Pavilion. A terrible accident, it seems, until a postcard is discovered in the victim's pocket: an image of Judith beheading Holofernes.

When the body of a man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Commissario Guido Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe...

Quando riceve una telefonata dalla sua ex compagna di università Gabby, che la invita a trascorrere il Natale nella sua casa sul lago in una sperduta località della Scozia, Sasha sa che sarebbe meglio non accettare. Dodici anni prima, mentre festeggiava la Vigilia di Natale con le cinque persone a lei più care, era accaduto un fatto orribile che aveva cambiato per sempre la loro amicizia. E da allora Sasha non ne ha più parlato con nessuno.

In this “absolutely electrifying” (Jeffrey Deaver) thriller and huge international hit, two people—each shattered by their past—team up to solve a series of killings and abductions that may hint at something far more sinister at play. When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and...

From “the undisputed crime fiction queen” (The Baltimore Sun), one of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s most enigmatic cases: leading Donna Leon’s iconic detective from the local dry cleaner all the way to Vienna’s most elite aristocrats. Over the years, Donna Leon’s bestselling...

On the Day of the Dead, the citizens of Venice make their way to the cemetery island of San Michele to pay their respects to the departed. When an empty coffin is unearthed in the English section of the graveyard, a day of quiet reflection for Nathan Sutherland becomes a journey into the dark past of a noble Venetian family. A British journalist, investigating the events of 40 years previously, disappears. A young tourist - with an unhealthy interest in Venice's abandoned islands- is found drowned in the icy lagoon. A terrible secret is about to be brought to light.

In Donna Leon’s brilliant twentieth mystery, Brunetti must prove that all is not what it seems in the death of an elderly widow. Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the...

In the sixteenth novel in Donna Leon’s bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, a mysterious kidnapping leads the Venetian detective into the darkest corners of the medical establishment. “Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen...[Her] ability to capture the city’s social...

Derbyshire, dicembre 1924. È un freddo Natale ad Alconbury Hall, la residenza di campagna della nobile famiglia Lennox. Così freddo che nemmeno generose dosi di sherry riescono a riscaldare la mente e il cuore di Lady Millicent Carmichael, mentre detta le sue scandalose memorie alla nuova segretaria. Beatrice però ancora non riesce a cogliere il sottobosco di ten­sioni che attraversa quella conturbante atmosfera natalizia.

THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIME Thirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story–the years not...

After solving a couple of murders, Bria is now known in the village as the "Italian Miss Marple," which could cause problems in her budding romance with the local police chief. But for now, all of Positano is abuzz with the homecoming of a star now that Carlotta Incantaro, a famous opera diva, is coming out of retirement to make one last public appearance.

The incredible story of the two most high-profile Italian cases in recent history: the story of the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades, and the Amanda Knox case.

Grande appassionato di gialli, Marzio Montecristo ha aperto da qualche anno nel centro di Cagliari una piccola libreria specializzata in romanzi polizieschi. Il nome della libreria, Les Chats Noirs, è un omaggio ai due gatti neri che un giorno si sono presentati in negozio e non se ne sono più andati, da lui soprannominati Miss Marple e Poirot. Nonostante il brutto carattere del proprietario, la libreria è molto frequentata, ed è Patricia, la giovane collaboratrice di Montecristo, di origini eritree, a salvare i clienti dalle sfuriate del titolare.

Il caso è estremamente complesso e quanto accaduto quella notte è solo il primo anello di una macabra catena. Soltanto un uomo può riuscire a mettere fine a quest'incubo: Joona Linna. E per calarsi nelle tenebre il commissario, questa volta, avrà bisogno dell'aiuto di un suo vecchio amico, l'ipnotista Erik Maria Bark.

Mi chiamo Atena Ferraris e mi sa che non sono come gli altri, inutile girarci intorno. Mia madre mi ha sempre detto che siamo tutti diversi, e quindi è come se fossimo tutti uguali. Non ne sono convinta, ma mi fido di lei. Ho trent'anni, vesto fuori moda e odio le sorprese. E ho ben ventisette sveglie ogni giorno per ricordarmi di lavorare, di mangiare, di andare a letto, di smettere di pensare. Soprattutto faccio troppe domande, dicono. Perché per me è essenziale che ogni cosa abbia una spiegazione.

In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on -- involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an...