Nadia Rinaldi has been a courier for twelve years and has never opened a package. This one is warm, and she is tired, and she has always been curious about the one thing she isn't allowed to know. Inside is a wedding ring. She puts it on for four seconds. The house she was delivering it to opens its own door, and the family that has been waiting three generations for a wife starts counting. Don Salvatore Verga has spent thirty years keeping that ring out of reach, because every woman who h...

**A #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Funny, insightful, illuminating . . ." —The Boston Globe**Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Mid...

In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical playMimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim is Carme...

"An engrossing mystery . . . peopled with authentic characters, most notably the wry, pot-smoking, disillusioned [cop] Rocco, who was born and raised in Rome." — Publishers WeeklyIt's the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has been kidnapped. Chiara Berguet, daughter of the owners of a local construction firm, was targeted thanks to the sizeable debt her parents owe. But like many a best-laid plan, a blown tire causes the crime to go ha...

The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this “charming farce that highlights the triumph of hope and community” (People).Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town’s pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all the residents will be forced ...

Nonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra.As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain Murino, in charge of the local carabinieri, never wanted to see harm brought to the doorstep of everyone’s favorite espresso-brewing, counsel-giving amateur sleuth. But when...

"[An] outstanding fable of greed, corruption and moral abandonment. Filled with echoes of Dante's Inferno." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Poisonville is noir par excellence—there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a less than heroic main character. In this bestselling novel, however, the real killer is not an individual but an entire system.The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy's richest region, is undergoing dramatic change...

What happens when you decide to make a dream come true?Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack up a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Within days their dream becomes a nightmare. After residing in two Italian cities, negotiating the roads and health care, discovering art, friends, food and customs, the Petralias learn more than they anticipated--about Italy, themselves, what it means to be American, ...

Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume, never one to bow to authority, pursues it his own way.When it becomes clear that the victim is an art forger, enemies-and hidden treasures-begin to emerge. Relying on old friends and intuitions, Blume hurls h...

Winner of the Viareggio Prize, a vivid portrait of Italy on the brink of social upheaval in the 1970s.Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino find...

This biographical novel recounts the extraordinary intuitions of the Italian-American visionary founder of the world's largest bank, the Bank of America. Amadeo Peter, or AP for his San Francisco friends, dedicated his life to generate wealth for the people of his home town, in particular for the Italian immigrant's community. He was an innovator and humanist, who always put the common good ahead of personal gain. He revolutionized the banking system when he financed the reconstruction of ...

A troubled police captain. A teenaged witch. A small town's only hope for vengeance.Matteo Scarpone is a modern-day Job. A man more sinned against than sinning.Once a cool-headed logician and the pride of Rome's carabinieri, he's devastated when disaster rocks his world.He is a lost man. Beaten. Shaken. HAUNTED.Shunned as an embarrassment, he is exiled to a tiny village in the sticks—a hamlet, a burg, a borgo