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.

Quando Emma si unisce al suo nuovo fidanzato Michael per un “Natale tra amici” sulle Alpi, viene rapidamente catapultata in un mondo esclusivo di privilegi, feste e politica. Emma non sa sciare e si sente fuori posto in quel gruppo affiatato, ma è determinata a conquistare tutti. Senza il solito mal di testa da famiglia riunita, i cavolini di Bruxelles e i regali indesiderati, il gruppo torna indietro nel tempo e si lascia andare senza freni. Mentre fuori sta per arrivare una tempesta, gli amici iniziano a ripercorrere il passato, riesumando ricordi e sentimenti a lungo sopiti.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Dahlia Cole is jilted at the altar and kidnapped by the fearsome leader of The Sicilian Brotherhood, Giacomo Valducci. He's desperate to make her pay for the sins of her ex-fiancé...Giacomo convinces her to go on the quest of a lifetime in exchange for her survival...The unexpected pushes them together, and a devious plot threatens to tear them apart forever. Passionate nights in secret safe houses and Sicilian beaches won't keep them safe. In the world of gangsters, it's near impossible to make it out alive.

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.

È seduta in macchina. Pronta a entrare in azione. La SDS l'ha assunta per consulenze di sicurezza informatica, ma le ragioni dell'ingaggio sono altre. Lei è l'elemento giusto per la sua abilità nell'infiltrazione e nel pedinamento e per diverse competenze acquisite sul campo. Per l'addestramento vissuto direttamente sulla pelle. Sonia Orlandi possiede una speciale percezione delle cose, riesce a vedere dispiegata davanti a sé ogni variabile.

Debora Camilli ha 25 anni e guida il taxi Siena 23. Un giorno però il destino la va a cercare. Ha il volto di una distinta signora che sale sul suo taxi e le chiede di aspettarla davanti a un portone... da cui non uscirà più. Ed è così che la sagacia e l'intuito della detective si risvegliano in Debora.

Un ex cronista di nera, una morte sospetta, un figlio in bilico. Dario Corbo torna a indagare, ma stavolta è la sua stessa vita a essere in gioco… Giulia, la sua ex moglie, muore investita in circostanze ambigue. Il figlio Luca è sotto processo. E troppe ombre si allungano sulla campagna toscana. Per Dario Corbo è tempo di indagini scomode e molto personali. Un noir teso e malinconico, dove l'ironia non salva e il passato torna a bussare con violenza.

Rick's fourth investigation should not have involved crime. It begins when Rick is asked by his uncle to go to Orvieto to talk some sense into his cousin Fabrizio, whose fling with a married woman is embarrassing the family. Rick agrees to give it a try and plans a short but romantic weekend in Orvieto with Betta Innocenti, the woman he met in Bassano. What could go wrong? Less than a day after their arrival, his language skills draw him into the brutal murder of an American visitor.