When Debbie Waterson's bicycle crashes into handsome doctor Pierluigi, she wonders if her luck has changed. Determinedly single after ending a long relationship, at last, a man worth bumping into!Inspired to visit Florence, she...
Italy
- Auteur:Williams, T. A.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Lynch, Sarah-KateSommaire:
The Tuscan town of Montevedova is famous for its rolling green hills, long lazy lunches and delectable cantucci biscuits. It even has its own patron saint. But Manhattan workaholic Lily Turner is not interested in any of that. She'...
- Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:
The body of an elderly woman is found in her apartment in Venice, and the prime suspect is her Romanian maid. The very afternoon of the murder, the maid is accidentally killed when she tries to cross the border to Romania. Commissario...
- Auteur:Hewson, DavidSommaire:
After a grisly murder, a missing star, and a stunning theft disrupt a glitzy movie premiere, the glitterati and paparazzi leave Rome for the "safer" confines of San Francisco. There Italian police detective Nic Costa, still charged with...
- Auteur:Myers, Beverle GravesSommaire:
Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls...
- Auteur:Joseph, HellerSommaire:
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time,...
- Auteur:Hewson, DavidSommaire:
It's February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as...
- Auteur:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Sommaire:
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. He is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside, his body temperature is grotesquely high, the smell of brimstone is everywhere, and the unmistakable...
- Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:
On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours...
- Auteur:di Michele, MarySommaire:
A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
- Auteur:Walter, JessSommaire:
Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
- Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was...
- Auteur:Carcaterra, LorenzoSommaire:
Dans Anges de minuit, l’auteur acclamé Lorenzo Carcaterra nous revient avec un nouveau roman à suspense palpitant, dévoilant un univers fascinant où l’art et le crime se donnent rendez-vous dans l’ombre, où les rumeurs tournant autour...
- Auteur:Gordon, LucySommaire:
While in Italy, Ferne Edmunds falls for handsome Dante Rinucci. This charmer lives a life of carefree ease, while harboring the sobering truth that each new day could be his last. But when Ferne learns she's pregnant, this casual...
- Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:
When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. Though loyal...
- Auteur:Forster, E. M.Sommaire:
Lucy Honeychurch is traveling in Italy with her overbearingly upright cousin Charlotte when a chance encounter with an unconventional father and son grant her a glimpse of a world beyond the repressive strictures of Edwardian society....
- Auteur:Leon, DonnaSommaire:
Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he learns that cases at the local court are...
- Auteur:Moorehead, CarolineSommaire:
In the late summer of 1943, Italy broke with Germany and joined the Allies. This historical account explores the women of Italy that liberated their country from the fascists. Partisans gave everything to fight Mussolini's two...
- Auteur:Athill, DianaSommaire:
In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, delightfully illustrated with photographs of the period, Athill recorded...
- Auteur:Southon, EmmaSommaire:
Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome's darkly fascinating...