Danger lurks beneath the beautiful Italian landscape when Palermo's railroad district director concocts a plan to seduce a station ticket agent's wife.

A bizarre death. A convent in turmoil. A cursed island. These and other stories and investigations in the most beautiful city in the world

This pacy, page-turning and utterly compelling Venice-set thriller brings together a present-day serial killer plot and the dangerously long reach of a deadly Etruscan artefact.

In 1880, Sara Randall flees to her grandmother's ancestral home in Venice where events lead the police to suspect her of murder.

Original characters and a wondrous atmosphere make this an exquisitely subtle mystery.

The Venice commissioner, Guido Brunetti, investigates the murder of a museum director who was involved in the traffic of Chinese antiques. Suspicion falls on a wealthy collector. By the author of Death and Judgment.

... the Venice Carnival of 1751 , when Longhi painted her . Seven years later , exhibited at the Horse and Groom pub in Lambeth , London , for a shilling and sixpence per viewing , she finally gave up the ghost , the most - travelled ...

... in Venice in 1928. The exhibition documenta . Politics and Art ( June 2021— January 2022 ) , presented at the ... murders in the Third Reich , but also artists who were victims of the Nazis ” ( Deutsche Welle 2021 ) . Moreover , of ...