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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Venice, when American librarian Samantha Lewis is approached by Irish rogue Keirnan Fitzgerald to help locate priceless 15th century jewels to pay his sister's ransom, they become embroiled in a 500-year-old love story that eerily prefigures their own.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A painting of masked revelers at the Venice carnival has a secret: to stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty.
Author
Series
Carnivia trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Venetian police captain Kat Tapo investigates an eerie ritualistic murder with ties to a Cold War cover-up and a malevolent Internet virus.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In sixteenth century Venice, the famed makers of Venetian glass faced death if they tried to leave the island... but one man schemes to outwit the enforcers of the edict. In 1958 Venice Beach, California, and in today's Venetian casino in Las Vegas, other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret. As the three stories weave together through time and space, the reader is drawn into a world of violence, and obsession.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When a woman kisses the man of her dreams under Venice's Bridge of Sighs at sunset, she will be together with him forever. Lucy kissed Nate, but over the next ten years they completely lost contact-- until he purchased paintings from the gallery where she is employed. At first Lucy is overjoyed at the reunion-- only it doesn't seem as wonderful this time. Can destiny be undone?
90) Captive countess
Author
Series
Publisher
Linford
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages (large print) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Zara Silk flies into Venice to play the lead role in the film CAPTIVE COUNTESS, she is instantly beset with problems. Rick Crane, the director, is openly hostile. Worse still are the threats from Wallis Bond, a fading superstar, who has her sights on playing the Countess herself. Her savage plot, to force Zara to quit, pitches the young star into a nightmare of conflict. Then, amazingly, Rick steps in to beat Wallis at her own game...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirriors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virutally imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to Louis XIV of France to protect his secret daughter. In the present day, his descendent, Leonara Manin, leaves London for...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (181 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness.
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve has discovered that a senior intelligence officer is in the pay of the Twelve-the secretive and subversive organization that employs Villanelle-and she is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. The duel between the two women intensifies,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in a series Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." A summer evening on the Sussex Downs in 1925, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings. An old friend's beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague--and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway--Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor...
Author
Language
English
Description
Venince, 1736. Violetta has a secret: When she climbs out of her window at The Hospital of the Incurables, the revered music school and orphanage that has always been her home, she can look out over the city and dream. But when she stumbles upon Mino, a violinist from the boy's hall who also seeks solace in the skyline, she feels a surprising connection. The two begin a passionate duet that will transform their lives. Yet, as Mino becomes determined...
99) Othello
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Othello tells the story of a Moorish general in command of armed forces of Venice who earns enmity of his ensign Iago by passing him over for a promotion. Partly for revenge, and partly out of pure evil, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been unfaithful to him.
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