Vatican Fiction

Diabolical Devise will tantalize your senses by luring you into a small-town diner. While there, you will meet two ordinary waitresses that happen upon an ultimate evil that will change their lives forever. Together they embark upon a heart-pounding, palm-sweating, knee-shaking venture, while struggling with unforeseen dark abysmal truths that are yet to be discovered.

Abandoned as a child and raised by the Church, young Sebastian works tirelessly in his pursuit of priesthood. But when a shadowy hooded figure serves him with a summons, his careful plans face a turning point. It appears his name has drawn the attention of the Inquisition and his attendance is commanded at once - for retribution, information, or something else, he does not know.

Sono trascorsi pochi mesi da quando Warren Hamilton è salito al soglio pontificio. Mentre tutti i riflettori sono puntati sull’inaugurazione del nuovo Giubileo, alla Santa Sede arriva una lettera anonima indirizzata al Papa. È una minaccia concreta o l’opera di un mitomane? A guidare le indagini ufficiali è Ben Keller, un uomo dal passato ambiguo e ora a capo dell’Entità, il servizio segreto vaticano. Hamilton chiede tuttavia a padre Alessio Macchia, vero artefice della sua elezione e nel frattempo divenuto suo segretario personale, di condurre un’inchiesta parallela.

When the papal apartments are burgled in 1901, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to Rome by Pope Leo XII. After learning from the pontiff that several priceless cameos that could prove compromising to the church, and perhaps determine the future of the newly unified Italy, have been stolen, Holmes is asked to recover them. In a parallel story, Michelangelo, the toast of Rome in 1501 after the unveiling of his Pieta, is commissioned by Pope Alexander VI, the last of the Borgia pontiffs, with creating the cameos that will bedevil Holmes and the papacy four centuries later.

Fresh from almost getting killed helping Sebastian McCabe solve The 1895 Murder, Jeff Cody and Lynda Teal are enjoying their honeymoon alone in Rome when mystery and murder intrude. The disappearance of a young American’s Roman boyfriend seems like a familiar tale of a summer romance leading to heartbreak . . . until a cameo necklace purchased at the Vatican is stolen right off of Lynda’s neck.