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BELGIUM

A Worldly Art

Mariet Westermann

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Italian Mysteries

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Vita Nuova

Vita Nuova

by Magdalen Nabb

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

In the final installment in the Marshal Guarnaccia series, our hero is stuck working through the month of August in a Florence that's "pretty empty except for tourists." Things heat up in more ways than one when Guarnaccia is called to investigate the murder of a single mother who is working towards her doctorate. The crime scene is her family's ritzy villa, with swimming pool out back and foreign cars in the driveway, none of which appeals to the old-fashioned marshall who would prefer to see a "nice orchard" or a "vineyard" on the property. It turns out that the source of these riches is not the father's nightclub, but his involvement in the sex trade. With his favorite colleagues on vacation, his favorite restaurants closed, and his wife away caring for his ailing sister, the lonely Guarnaccia finds himself joining forces with the dean of local crime reporters who thinks the young woman's death has something to do with her father's "business." (ITL938, $13.00)

End Games

End Games

by 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)

A Question of Belief

A Question of Belief

by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Brunetti grapples with corruption, the usual bureaucratic intransigence -- and the sweltering Venetian summer -- in this 19th book. (ITA134, $15.00)

The Track of Sand

The Track of Sand

by Stephen Sartarelli | Andrea Camilleri

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Book 12 in Camilleri's series (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy) again stars the world-weary and food-loving Inspector Montalbano. After he comes across a bludgeoned horse and his seaside home is ransacked, Montalbano must investigate Sicily's horseracing subculture and its connections to the Mafia. (ITA166, $14.00)

 

The Hunting Season


by Stephen Sartarelli | Andrea Camilleri

  • HISTORY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES
  • COMING IN MAY

From the writer of the irresistable Inspector Montalbano series, comes a brilliant and bawdy murder mystery that reveals a new farcical side of the master of Sicilian mysteries. (AFR300, $15.00)

Death at La Fenice

Death at La Fenice


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 270 PAGES

The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. (ITL555, $14.99)

Death of an Englishman

Death of an Englishman


by Magdalen Nabb

  • MYSTERY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

The debut of Nabb's highly readable, atmospheric Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence on Christmas Eve. (ITL639, $14.00)

Ratking

Ratking


by Michael Dibdin

  • MYSTERY
  • 1997
  • PAPER

Venetian crime investigator Aurelio Zen goes after the kidnappers of a Perugian industrialist in this enjoyable thriller, winner of the Gold Dagger Award (and first book in the series). (ITL622, $13.95)

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water


by Andrea Camilleri

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

The first of 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. If you like the series, it continues in 12 more installments -- and counting. (ITL528, $14.00)

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