Rick Montoya Italian mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling into la dolce vita when a school friend, who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role--posing as an art buyer from New Mexico, interested in black market Etruscan burial urns. But before sunset on Rick's first day in Volterra, a gallery employee plunges to his death from a high cliff. The local commissario...
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Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Orvieto--its very name brings to mind priceless art, colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most famous cathedral facade in Italy, a structure of gothic spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as well. When Rick Montoya moved to his mother's Italy from his father's Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work as a freelance translator using his dual heritage, he didn't expect to...
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Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"The body rolled off the planks and slipped into the water with barely a splash, quickly embraced by the steady current flowing toward the city of Mantova. It comes to rest against rocks overlooked by the grim ramparts of Castello di San Giorgio as the river Mincio flows on towards the Po and the Adriatic Sea...Rick Montoya, an American from New Mexico self-employed as a translator in Italy once again puts his linguistic skills to use for the local...
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Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi. The wealthy...
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
While Betta has official business in Urbino -- namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector-- she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind. When the Spaniard is found murdered and the drawing stolen, Betta must shift back into art cop mode, and Rick's official services are required after all. Will this lovers' getaway literally be to die for?
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Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When an old college friend leading a religious tour in Assisi asks interpreter Rick Montoya to fill in for their guide who's gone missing, Rick is happy to oblige. He's looking forward to seeing his old friend, and the food and wine of Umbria sound like the perfect reward for a tense translation job he's just completed for the police in Palermo involving witness testimony against the mafia. But when the shady tour guide is found dead the next morning...