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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 6
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English
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"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...
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English
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"1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau--find success, forming a bond amid...
Author
Series
Commissario Balistreri novels volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Series
Caselli and Torre novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinatingly complex thriller, two people, each shattered by their past, team to solve a series of killings and abductions-a ruthlessly planned escalation that turns out to be merely the visible surface of something far more sinister. When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, the police unit assigned to the case sees an easy solution: they arrest the woman's husband and await his confession. But...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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"Russo and Tilla's excitement upon arriving in Rome with their baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too may doctors--some skilled, but others positively dangerous. Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his predecessor, Doctor Kleitos, has fled, leaving a dead man in...
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Roma Sub Rosa series volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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"In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work. Flavia...
10) A capitol death
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. While it looks like a suicide, one witness swears that she saw it happen and that he was pushed. Normally, this would attract very little official notice but this man happened to be in charge of organizing the Imperial Triumphs demanded by the emperor. The Emperor Domitian, autocratic and erratic, has decided that he deserves two Triumphs...
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond...
12) Ode to a banker
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Chrysippus, esteemed banker, patron of the arts, and scroll merchant," offers to publish Falco's work, but when Falco hears the proposed price and then learns that Chrysippus has been murdered, Falco assembles all the suspects.--Jacket.
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Series
Poisoner mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
15) The Satyricon
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. The father of the picaresque genre, it recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they wander through southern Mediterranean cities.
16) Roman blood
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
17) The sacrilege
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Series
SPQR mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a sacred women's rite, presided over by Caesar's spouse, Pompeia, is infiltrated by a corrupt patrician dressed in female garb, Caeciliuis Metellus the Younger, an experienced detective, steps in to investigate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
As Flavia di Stefano, acting head of Italy's Art Theft Squad, works to retrieve a stolen painting without publicity or payment, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, is preparing a birthday gift: "the provenance of a small Renaissance painting, an Immaculate Conception," that hangs on a friend's wall.--Jacket.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy,...
20) Caesar's women
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 4
Publisher
Avon A, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of Julius Caesar on the theme that behind every man there stands a woman. In this case there were several, among them his strong-willed mother, his formidable mistress and his beautiful daughter, whom he married to Pompey in order to cement an alliance. The story is told against the background of everyday life in ancient Rome, detailing the mores and manners of the day.
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