Italian Mysteries Fiction

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Tra sette giorni Jet Mason sarà morta. Jet ha ventisette anni e sta ancora aspettando che la sua vita decolli. Il suo mantra è "lo farò più tardi", pensando di avere tutto il tempo del mondo. Fino alla notte di Halloween, quando viene aggredita in casa sua da un intruso. L'attacco le procura un forte trauma cranico e il medico è certo che entro una settimana la lesione scatenerà un aneurisma mortale. Jet non ha mai pensato di avere dei nemici, ma ora vede tutti sotto una nuova luce: la sua famiglia, la sua ex migliore amica, ora sua cognata, il suo ex fidanzato possessivo.

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.

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?

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.

Un'abbazia medievale isolata. Una comunità di monaci sconvolta da una serie di delitti. Un frate francescano che indaga i misteri di una biblioteca inaccessibile. Il romanzo che ha rivelato al mondo il genio narrativo di Umberto Eco, un racconto tradotto in 60 paesi, un best seller da 7 milioni di copie solo in Italia, che ha vinto il premio Strega e ha ispirato film e serie tv di successo mondiale.

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...

On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working-class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades".

Faccio un respiro profondo mentre mi avvicino al lodge con le pareti di vetro che la mia ex suocera, Angela, ha prenotato per il suo compleanno. Non avevo alcuna voglia di andare in vacanza con il mio ex marito e la sua nuova moglie, ma lei ha insistito perché io e i miei figli facessimo finta di essere una famiglia felice. Poi arriva una telefonata dalla polizia. Qualcuno è stato ucciso. E pensano che noi sappiamo qualcosa. Il cuore mi batte all'impazzata mentre osservo la neve alta accumulata alla finestra. Siamo intrappolati in questa casa. C'è un assassino tra noi.

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...

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...

Belle vive in un bellissimo castello con una Bestia e degli oggetti incantati che hanno preso vita. Ma non è questa la cosa più strana del castello: petali e foglie di rose hanno iniziato ad apparire in zone casuali del maniero, portando Belle e i suoi compagni, Tockins l’orologio a pendolo e Lumière il candelabro, a intraprendere una caccia all’intruso.

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.

Six months after her husband's death, Tessa Esposito is hoping to drum up reservations for her restaurant's grand opening. And since a signing with best-selling author Preston Rigotta is sure to draw a crowd, Tessa agrees to cater her cousin's bookstore event - whipping up some of her famous Italian desserts. But the event soon takes a sour turn when Preston's publicist, an old high school rival, arrives and begins to whisk up their old grudges.

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.

Though she still misses her late husband, Carlo, Bria couldn't be happier that their dream bed and breakfast, Bella Bella, is humming along nicely. Of course, even on the stunning Amalfi Coast, things seldom run smoothly. Like Bria's mother and mother-in-law dueling over a suitable communion site for Bria's eight-year-old son Marco. Bria's also juggling the demands of the famous Chef Lugo, his producer, Massimo, and Pippa, a member of the production crew who is staying at Bella Bella for a nice, long-term stay . . .