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Guido Brunetti Mystery Series
by Donna Leon
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by Louise Penny
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsThe 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light.
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
by Mario Giordano
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFor fans of A Man Called Ove and the novels of Adriana Trigiani, a charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily's newest amateur sleuth.
by Louise Penny
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsChief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life in Three Pines, finding long buried secrets--and facing a few of his own ghosts.
by Louise Penny
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsIt is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society.
by Martin Walker
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsThe first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule.
by Peter May
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod to the study which the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. Enzo rashly boasted he could solve the case - but that proves to be more difficult than he thought...
by Robert Harris
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsOf all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. Imperium recounts in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and many others.
by John Berendt
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThe author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
by David Hewson
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsThe snow is falling in Rome - in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....this horrific murder hurtles Rome's police force into a collision with U.S. agentsand a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now ...
by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsA ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in Garcia-Roza's Brazilian crime series.
by Andrea Camilleri
Published Jul 2004
Read ReviewsThe Sicilian detective, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, is on the search for the killer of a young woman. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer (now disappeared) and her lover - an antiques dealer from Bologna. However, it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key.
by Ian Rankin
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsWith the brilliant eye for character and place that have made him a major international bestseller, Ian Rankin delivers yet another page-turning novel of intricate suspense set in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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