Italian Mysteries Fiction

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life: Dance like nobody’s watching. Travel the world. And fall hopelessly in love. I aimed to do all three. I went to Italy to find myself. But he found me.

Depuis son accident, Sergei n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. La jeune femme doit se battre contre ses démons pour redevenir l'assassin qu'elle était. Vitali, le Parrain de la Bratva, est prêt à tout pour l'aider, quitte à l'accompagner à l'autre bout du monde. Quand Sergei parvient enfin à remonter la pente, elle décide qu'il est temps d'achever la mission confiée par son père. Mais très vite, ses certitudes vacillent.

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no qualms about the task, whether it entails abduction, torture - or even murder.

Il mattino dopo una feroce tempesta, il corpo di un’adolescente vulnerabile è rinvenuto nel bosco. La polizia è sotto pressione e fa il possibile per trovare l’assassino, ma in assenza di testimoni e con pochissimi indizi, brancola nel buio. Nel disperato tentativo di risolvere il caso, si cerca in lungo e in largo e alla fine viene individuato il colpevole perfetto: un outsider privo di alibi. Con la confessione dell’uomo, il caso sembra aperto e chiuso. Ma due donne sospettano che la polizia abbia giocato sporco e dedicano la loro vita a scoprire cosa sia davvero successo, a qualunque costo.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return home safe. Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a lonely journey to begin a new life far from home. Sydney, 1948. Billie Walker, recently returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, has reopened her father’s private inquiry office. One day, Billie is cleaning out old filing cabinets when she uncovers a dusty box whose contents just might upend everything Billie thought she knew about her late, beloved father.

The third installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family - one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema - achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president.

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch.

As the food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, it's Hayley Powell's job to stay on top of the latest eateries in town. Just in time for the summer tourist season, Chef Romeo, a successful restaurateur from New York City, has opened an establishment called - naturally - Romeo's. But between his over-the-top temperament and his no-holds-barred diet, Chef Romeo may not live through the grand opening.

Audible Studios presenta una produzione Audible Originals: Poirot a Styles Court, con Claudio Santamaria nel ruolo del leggendario Hercule Poirot. Un’audio serie corale che riunisce un cast d’eccezione, nell’adattamento del romanzo d’esordio di Agatha Christie. Inghilterra, 1914. Il mondo è precipitato in un conflitto senza precedenti. Ferito nel corpo e nell’animo, il capitano Hastings accetta l’invito a trascorrere la convalescenza a Styles Court, l’imponente dimora di campagna di un vecchio amico.

Count Falier urges his Venetian son-in-law Guido Brunetti to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. Then Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room.

Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vigata, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Vigata's most respected detective, who has his doubts about the way Silvio died.

Colonia, 1260. Gerhard Morart sa bene che non potrà mai completare la costruzione della «sua» cattedrale prima di morire. Quello che non sa, purtroppo, è che la morte non tarderà ad arrivare: qualcuno infatti gli tende un agguato e lo fa precipitare da un’impalcatura dell’edificio. Un delitto pianificato sin nei minimi dettagli, che tuttavia ha un singolare testimone: Jacop, un ladruncolo che si trova su un melo lì accanto, intento a rubare i frutti succosi per placare la sua eterna fame.

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich – what could possibly go wrong? Inside the high walls of the palatial villa, Dan discovers the gathered guests are some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world, with plans for world domination. With so much at stake, Dan redoubles his efforts to keep everyone safe. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks – especially considering Anna’s own daughter is in the frame.

The best-selling author of the Alienist series returns with a chilling elaboration on the Sherlock Holmes canon, as the famed detective investigates a pair of gruesome murders, which cast an otherworldly shadow as far as Queen Victoria herself.

Mentre è in vacanza nel Dorset Morse legge sul Times di un messaggio che la polizia ha girato al giornale. Contiene un poema che parla di un bosco e di una ragazza| e avverte che questa poesia| giustamente interpretata| fornisce la chiave per risolvere il caso della Fanciulla Svedese| una bella turista scomparsa e| pare| assassinata l’anno prima. La sfida è irresistibile| la vacanza è agli sgoccioli e a Morse non resta che gettarsi anima e corpo in un’indagine più complicata e affascinante di tutti i suoi amati cruciverba.

Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

Ricky Colenso, giovane statunitense, parte pieno di entusiasmo per aiutare i profughi bosniaci alla volta di Zagabria, dove lo attende però una fine atroce. Suo nonno, il miliardario Steve Edmond, muove tutte le pedine a sua disposizione per fare chiarezza sulla morte del nipote e per catturare Zoran Žilić, il feroce assassino di Ricky. Sarà questo il compito del Vendicatore, un misterioso personaggio con un tragico passato alle spalle. La caccia ha inizio, e sarà metodica, pianificata, curata in ogni dettaglio.

Su un terreno nei dintorni di Vigàta, buono solo per ricavarne creta per i vasai, viene trovato il cadavere di un uomo. Sfigurato, squartato, chiuso in un sacco affiorato dopo una forte pioggia. Non si sa chi sia lo sconosciuto, ma nel frattempo una donna del paese denunzia la scomparsa del marito, un colombiano di origini siciliane, imbarcato su navi di lungo corso che fanno la spola tra il Sud America e l'Italia.