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	The Shape of Water  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES The first installment in Camilleri's wildly popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, nicely translated -- and shot through (pun intended) with not just memorable characters but also with Sicilian lore and politics. The action takes place in a fictional coastal town, where a local politico is suspiciously dead. (ITL528, $14.00)
	The Terracotta Dog  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES Number two in the wildly popular Inspector Montalbano series. Among its many pleasures is Camilleri's wry send-up of Sicilian society and politics. (ITL529, $13.00)
	The Snack Thief  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES The third book in the best-selling series starring the irresistible Inspector Montalbano, a small town police detective with a healthy appetite, roving intellect and wry sense of humor. (ITL530, $14.00)
	Voice of the Violin  •  Andrea Camilleri  •  Stephen Sartarelli MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES In this fourth installment in the popular Inspector Montalbano series. Camilleri delivers a delightful cast of characters and wry commentary on Sicilian ways, headed by the irresistible Inspector Montalbano, a small town police detective with a healthy appetite, roving intellect and wry sense of humor. It opens with a classic conceit of police procedurals: a beautiful blond woman is found dead. That's the least of it. (ITL537, $14.00)
	The Excursion to Tindari  •  Andrea Camilleri  •  Stephen Sartarelli MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Book number five in Camilleri's Inspector Montalban series. The sly, overworked inspector has his hands full in this satisfyingly complex tale which finds a young man (with a reputation for amorous adventure) dead, a neighbor couple missing -- and a local mafia Don asking for protection for his grandson. (ITL616, $14.00)
	The Smell of the Night  •  Andrea Camilleri  •  Stephen Sartarelli MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES Book number six in Camilleri's series starring the world-weary, earthy Inspector Montalban (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy). In this installment the sly detective is on the trail of a financier who has disappeared with milllions. (ITL617, $14.00)
	Rounding the Mark  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES Book number seven in Camilleri's absorbing series starring the world-weary, earthy Inspector Montalbano (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy). The inspector, hoping to get police work off his mind with a swim in the ocean, discovers a corpse. (ITL722, $14.00)
	The Patience of the Spider  •  Stephen Sartarelli  •  Andrea Camilleri LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Book number eight in Camilleri's series, starring the world-weary, earthy -- aging not so gracefully -- Inspector Montalbano (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy). (ITL826, $14.00)
	The Paper Moon  •  Andrea Camilleri  •  Stephen Sartarelli MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Inspector Montalbano becomes embroiled in another complex case as he investigates the death of a man shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down and finds himself dealing with two beautiful but evasive women as prime suspects, mysterious computer codes, threatening letters, and dirty cocaine that turn Vigata police headquarters upside down. (ITL898, $13.00)
	August Heat  •  Andrea Camilleri MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES The endearing, beleagured Inspector Montalbano's seaside interlude in Vigata takes a bizaare turn when the body of a teenage girl turns up -- in his basement, in this 10th installment in the series. (ITL942, $14.00)
	End Games  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Murder, eccentric millionaires, American film scouts and buried treasure all figure prominently in Dibdin's last Zen mystery, set in the hill towns of Calabria. (ITL873, $13.95)
	Ratking  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  1997 •  PAPER Venetian crime investigator Aurelio Zen (now living in Rome with his mother) goes after the kidnappers of a Perugian industrialist in this enjoyable thriller, winner of the Gold Dagger Award. This is the book that launched the series of satisfyingly complex tales, all set in Italy and rich in details of contemporary Italian life and politics. (ITL622, $13.95)
	Vendetta  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 260 PAGES An eccentric billionaire, his wife and guests are gunned down Mob-style in his Sardinian villa in this second book in the Aurelio Zen series, winner of the Crime Writers Association Award in 1990. World-weary Zen is none too happy about leaving his Venetian roost for the wilds of Sardinia. (ITL621, $13.95)
	Cabal  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 241 PAGES In this beautifully written thriller, detective Aurelio Zen is called to the Vatican to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, who plunged from the roof of St. Peter's Basilica. It's hard to say what we like best about Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series: his knowing police detective, the thoroughly enjoyable Italian settings, fast-paced plot or wry commentary on contemporary society and politics. (ITL620, $13.95)
	Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 297 PAGES Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series. It may be his best, the city a perfect match for the knowing charm of Dibdin's detective. (ITL577, $13.95)
	Cosi Fan Tutti  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 247 PAGES Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series. Much lighter in tone than the other Aurelio Zen books, Cosi Fan Tutti has some wonderfully comic moments worthy of Shakespeare. (ITL623, $13.95)
	A Long Finish, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES Another enjoyable "Aurelio Zen Mystery" from Michael Dibdin, this time private investigator Zen is in Rome and Alba, enjoying wonderful wine and food while uncovering a murderous plot that may jeopardize the Piemontese wine industry. (ITL193, $13.95)
	Blood Rain  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES Much of the action on this installment in the enjoyable Aurelio Zen series is set in and around Catania in Sicily, a place that our world-weary detective had always hoped to avoid. It's hard to say what we like best about Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series: his knowing police detective, the thoroughly enjoyable Italian settings, fast-paced plot or wry commentary on contemporary society and politics. (ITL624, $13.00)
	Medusa, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES It's hard to say what we like best about Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series: his knowing police detective, the thoroughly enjoyable Italian settings, fast-paced plot or wry commentary on contemporary society and poltitics. In this ninth outing, Zen finds a mysterious corpse in a long-abandoned military tunnel in the Dolomites, a perfect opportunity for Dibdin to put his detective on scenic train rides and immerse him in some unsavory WWII-era politics. Zen and Gemma are living quietly (or attempting to) in Lucca after the events of the last book, Blood Rain. (ITL576, $13.95)
	And Then You Die  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2003 •  PAPER Dibdin's stylish, dark detective is hiding out at a beach resort in Tuscany in this installment of the Aurelio Zen series. Naturally, he jumps into the action to find out who is trying to kill him. It's hard to say what we like best about Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series: his knowing police detective, the thoroughly enjoyable Italian settings, fast-paced plot or wry commentary on contemporary society and politics. (ITL619, $12.95)
	Back to Bologna  •  Michael Dibdin MYSTERY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES Dibdin shows a lighter touch in this installment in the marvelous Aurelio Zen mysteries. His detective, up to his neck in girlfriend trouble, is called to Bologna to figure out who killed a local industrialist. He encounters a diverse cast of characters and, naturally, more murders ensue. (ITL746, $13.95)
	About Face  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 278 PAGES The 18th installment in the deliciously entertaining series, this time Leon sets her urbane Venetian policeman on the trail of none other than ... garbage -- or rather corruption, murder, toxic waste, trucking, toxic wade and the environment, all wrapped in leisurely ,meals with wife and children and lots of scenes of daily life. The titles refers to a great baeuty, ruined by a tragically misguided facelift, part of a second plot involving the father-in-law. (ITA54, $24.00)
	Death at La Fenice  •  Donna Leon MYSTERY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 270 PAGES The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice. A famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. Donna Leon, as you might guess, is an opera expert. (ITL555, $13.95)

	A Noble Radiance  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Number seven in the Guido Brunetti mysteries, all memorably set in contemporary Venice. For some readers, this installment is the best yet. A body is found on the estate of a local landowner at the foot of the Dolomites. (ITL557, $14.00)
	A Sea of Troubles  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  This tenth mystery in the entertaining series follows the tribulations of Signorina Elettra, the urbane Brunetti's secretary, who falls in love with a young(er) man on a visit to Pellestrina, one of the long islands that shelters the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic. (ITA55, $14.00)
	Acqua Alta  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Number five in the series, this is another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries. In this installment, a body is discovered in the home of diva Flavia Petrelli. (ITL559, $14.00)
	Blood from a Stone  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  In this, the 14th installment in Donna Leon's wonderfully satisfying Guido Brunetti mysteries, a Senegalese peddler is shot down in a public square (on a cold Venetian night...). (ITL615, $14.00)
	Death and Judgment  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  In the fourth installment in the enormously satisfying Guido Brunetti series, the Commissario investigates suspicious happenings in Santa Lucia, Venice and the Dolomites. (ITL745, $14.00)
	Death in a Strange Country  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  This, the second Brunetti mystery, opens with a body of an American soldier in a Venetian Canal. (ITL556, $14.00)
	Death of an Englishman  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  The debut of Nabb's highly readable, atmospheric Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence on Christmas Eve. (ITL639, $12.00)
	Doctored Evidence  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, a miserly, unpleasant woman is found murdered and all eyes, at least until our hero arrives, point to her Romanian housekeeper. (ITL613, $14.00)
	Dressed for Death  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. (ITL614, $14.00)
	Fatal Remedies  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Commissario Brunetti returns in the latest installment of Leon's popular mystery series. (ITL856, $14.00)
	Friends in High Places  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  The tenth in the excellent Comissario Brunetti series, this mystery follows the investigation of a bureaucrat's dubious fall from a scaffold. (ITL968, $14.00)
	Quietly in Their Sleep  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  The sixth book in Leon's satisfying series, originally published as Death of Faith in 1997. (ITL833, $14.00)
	Suffer the Little Children  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery delves into the world of doctors and medicine in a wonderfully realized contemporary Venice. (ITL834, $7.99)
	The Girl of His Dreams  •  Donna Leon   • LITERATURE  •  Now in paper! Thickly plotted and as imbued as ever with the atmosphere of Venice, The Girl of His Dreams, 17th in the series, opens with the funeral of Brunetti's mother. Going undercover (and besotted), the detective investigates, among other things, a mysterious religious sect and the suspicious death of a gypsy girl. (ITL940, $14.00)
	The Marshal Makes His Report  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  Marshal Guarnaccia investigates the suspicious suicide of a Florentine aristocrat in the eighth installment of Nabb's excellent series. (ITL972, $14.00)
	The Marshal's Own Case  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  In the seventh book in Nabb's fast-paced, atmospheric series, Inspector Guarnaccia must navigate the underbelly of Florentine society after a transvestite prostitute is found dead. (ITL971, $14.00)
	The Rainaldi Quartet  •  Paul Adam   • MYSTERY  •  Memorably set among the luthiers of Cremona, this is one of a series of favorite mysteries recused by the good folks at Felony & Mayhem. (ITL887, $14.95)
	Through a Glass, Darkly: A Commissario Guide Brunetti Mystery  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  Number 15 in the enormously satisfying, wonderfully erudite series memorably set in the author's beloved Venice and starring police commissioner Guido Brunetti. (ITL714, $14.00)
	Vita Nuova  •  Magdalen Nabb   • MYSTERY  •  Marshal Guarnaccia is singled out to solve the death of a reclusive single mother with a dysfunctional family in the 14th and final installment of the series set in Florence. Nabb died in August 2007. (ITL938, $13.00)
	Brunetti's Venice, Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective  •  Toni Sepeda  •  Donna Leon   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Who better to be your guide? Taking the form of 12 terrifically informative walking tours (which work equally as well as for mystery fans and actual visitors to Venice), Toni Sepeda's clever guide includes excellent local maps -- and acompanying text by none other than Brunetti. Sepeda quotes extensivelty from the mysteries, making this as much a literay as walking guide. (ITA52, $16.95)

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