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"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company....
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"Set against the heroism and heartbreak of World War II, former Army officer Ed Ruggero brilliantly captures, with grace and authenticity, the evocative and timeless stories of ordinary people swept up in extraordinary times. Sicily, 1943. Eddie Harkins, former Philadelphia beat cop turned Military Police lieutenant, reluctantly finds himself first at the scene of a murder at the US Army's 11th Field Hospital. There the nurses contend with heat, dirt,...
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 5
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"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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"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 full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently,...
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 6
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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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Francis Meadowes mystery volume 3
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"Francis Meadowes is soaking up the late summer sun in Italy, running a creative writing course at the beautiful Villa Giulia, deep in the remote Umbrian countryside. Recruited by the villa's owners, Stephanie and Gerry, Francis's students include snooty, irritating Poppy and her ex-ambassador husband Duncan, eccentric Northern Irishman Liam, quirky, self-styled 'Hampstead Jewess' Zoe, bossy Scottish Diana, kooky young American Sasha, mysterious 'spy'...
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Michele Ferrara mysteries volume 2
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In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite Squadra Mobile, takes the case. Because toxins were discovered in the girl's body, many assume that she died of a drug overdose. But Ferrara quickly realizes that the truth is darker than that: he believes the girl was murdered.--From back cover.
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"Un día de diciembre aparece en un pueblecito del norte de Italia el cadáver de una chica salvajemente asesinada. Ilaria Piatti, joven becaria de un periódico local, relaciona el crimen con terroríficos hechos del pasado: el caso del Vampiro de Bottanuco, el estrangulador de mujeres que aterrorizó la región hace 100 años. Para Marco Besana, su veterano compañero de redacción, este es el caso que ha estado esperando toda su vida, con el que...
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"Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have...
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W niewielkim włoskim miasteczku u stóp Alp turysta dokonuje makabrycznego odkrycia. Na leśnej polanie leży nagie ciało mężczyzny z wyłupionymi oczami. Na miejsce przybywa komisarz Teresa Battaglia, doświadczona profilerka, której ciało i mózg zaczynają odmawiać posłuszeństwa, oraz inspektor Massimo Marini, nowy w zespole. Oboje są zdeterminowani, by rozwikłać zagadkę morderstwa zdającego się nie mieć logicznego wyjaśnienia,...
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"La muerte llega a Roma a las doce menos diez minutos de la noche con un tren de alta velocidad procedente de Milán. Del coche de lujo extrañamente no sale nadie. Todos los pasajeros están muertos. La subcomisaria Colomba Caselli, que acaba de reincorporarse al servicio tras su último y escalofriante caso, es quien se encarga de evaluar la masacre. Aunque todo apunta a un ataque de terrorismo y el ISIS reivindica la autoría a través de un vídeo,...
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