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Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues...
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Tuscan dreams volume 1
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English
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When Isabella Jenkins is fired from her job, she escapes to Tuscany for some quiet time away. But her serene Italian getaway turns chaotic as she finds herself on a mission to pull off the wedding of the century and get her life in order. If only the local chef's smile wasn't such a powerful distraction.
4) Still life
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English
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"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 1
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English
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When a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role to flush out priceless burial urn traffickers, he soon becomes a suspect a suspect in the death of a gallery employee.
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"Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, Nico Doyle has figured a thing or two out, and his budding relationship with Nelli is healing old wounds. Then Nico receives a phone call late at night from Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home, and the only person at the scene of the crime only speaks English, which presents a complication for Perillo. Though...
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English
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Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a meddlesome mother. So when her mother receives a letter of a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma sees her chance. She throws caution to the wind and the three leave for Italy. She hopes that a change of scenery will bring back the closeness she used to share with her daughter and give her mother something to worry about beyond Gemma's social life.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after her British bomber pilot father parachuted from his stricken plane into German-occupied Tuscany, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to learn about her father's hidden wartime past.
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Valentine trilogy volume 3
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English
Description
When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest.
10) Rancid pansies
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days. The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar All'Angolo, Gravigna's local café, where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out...
14) Tuscan holiday
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English
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When single mother Elizabeth Caldwell and her twenty-one-year-old daughter, Marina, vacation in Italy, they both find their lives forever changed by the sights that they see and the people that they meet.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Description
As Sandro Cellini comes to grips with the realities of life as a private detective, touting for business and following errant teenagers, an old case comes back to haunt him. Charming and ruthless Loni Meadows, the subject of a routine background check early in Sandro's career, goes off the icy road in her car one night. The circumstances of her death seem less than accidental to Sandro - however inconvenient his suspicions might be.
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Tuscany visiting friends with his wife, Gideon Oliver is asked to reexamine the bones of a couple whose deaths were ruled a murder-suicide. His findings do not agree with those of the Italian police.
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Renting a Tuscan apartment where she plans to spend the summer writing, an American academic becomes captivated by her hostess' family heritage and the unsolved death of a relative from World War II.
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