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The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings
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A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm.
Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be found.
Lead investigators Mila Vasquez, a celebrated...
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An international bestseller and winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize-an intense psychological thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. Ripley
As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. Then one terrifying...
4) Poisonville
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"[An] outstanding fable of greed, corruption and moral abandonment. Filled with echoes of Dante's Inferno." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Poisonville is noir par excellence-there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a less than heroic main character. In this bestselling novel, however, the real killer is not an individual but an entire system.
The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy's richest region, is undergoing dramatic change. It once...
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Scholastic Inc
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2021.
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Using the clues found in Aurora Beatrix Lane's travel diary, the Thea Sisters continue their search for the seven lost treasures; and the object this time is the Ring of Eternal Love, a journey that begins in Verona, Italy, with the story of Romeo and Juliet and takes them around the world.
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Caselli and Torre novels volume 2
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Scribner
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2018.
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"A crime thriller set in Rome, as two detectives hunt down a bizarre killer who believes she is already dead"--
"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage...
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Atria Books
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2017.
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"Like Fellini's classic film 8 1/2 and mixed with Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty, a gorgeously wrought novel that explores the complicated life of a controversial Italian film producer who vanishes after a fire destroys his home. Rome, present day, an extravagant, opulent world of fashionable parties, fancy cars, and powerful men and women in a constant dance of excess and intrigue. Oscar Martello, president of a film production company, is a self-made...
10) A nest of vipers
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"Montalbano investigates the death of the wealthy Cosimo Barletta in a case that involves a ring of mistresses and family secrets."--
11) Game of mirrors
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2015.
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"In Game of Mirrors, Inspector Montalbano and his colleagues are stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses-one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer. Meanwhile, the alluring Liliana Lombardo is trying to seduce the Inspector over red wine and arancini. Between pesky reporters, amorous trysts, and cocaine kingpins, Montalbano feels as if he's being manipulated on all fronts. That is, until the inspector himself becomes the prime...
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Commissario Balistreri novels volume 1
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Quercus
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2014.
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English
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