Italian Crime

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life: Dance like nobody’s watching. Travel the world. And fall hopelessly in love. I aimed to do all three. I went to Italy to find myself. But he found me.

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch.

When private investigator, Dan Armstrong, and his girlfriend, Anna, are invited to the gorgeous island of Elba for a much-needed break, he jumps at the chance. The thought of sun-drenched shores makes Dan promise Anna he won't “play detective” for a whole week… Their luxurious hotel, with its wonderful food and picturesque seaside views, seems the perfect escape, especially with Dan's best friend Virgilio and his wife joining them. But the calm shatters with a sinister encounter and a sudden, suspicious death..

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

Rick Montoya has just moved from Santa Fe to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's beginning to settle in to la dolce vita when school friend Beppo, now senior in the Italian Art Squad, recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick arrives in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery to flush out traffickers in priceless burial urns. However, before sunset on his first day in Volterra, the challenge intensifies. Rick has one quick conversation with a gallery employee who dies minutes later in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

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On December 5, 2009, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher. In December of the following year, the appeal trial began. Despite the initial verdict, the Italian and international public opinion is widely divided: many are those who think that Amanda and Raffaele are the victims of a miscarriage of justice. Images of the couple have been seen around the world, on the web and on TV screens, creating a true media sensation.But what really took place?

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It's truffle season, and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, worth more than its weight in gold. But when an American truffle 'supertaster' goes missing, English Detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could chew?

Vincentio di Vivaldi has fallen in love with Ellena Rosalba. However, his proud and noble family vehemently oppose the match: they cannot allow him to wed someone with no money or social standing. Thus, his mother, the mean-spirited Marchesa, and her minion, the evil monk Father Schedoni, set in motion a malign plot that has Ellena kidnapped and imprisoned in a convent, to prevent a hasty marriage.

A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city's renown cinema archive decides to mark the occasion with a screening of the original, only to discover it has disappeared. After English detective Daniel Leicester follows the trail of Love Upon a Razorblade to an apparent murder-suicide, he begins to suspect there may be more at stake than missing negatives—could the film contain a clue to one of the city's most enduring mysteries?

Milano, 2002. Molti misteri s'intrecciano sotto la Madonnina. Tutto comincia quando un noto avvocato viene assassinato in pieno giorno nella centralissima piazza dei Mercanti: prima di morire, però, l'uomo traccia uno strano simbolo col proprio sangue. Da qui parte una complicata indagine che porterà Enrico Radeschi, giovane aspirante giornalista nonché hacker alle prime armi, a indagare, insieme allo scorbutico vicequestore Loris Sebastiani, su una misteriosa confraternita che trae ispirazione da san Carlo Borromeo e persegue un disegno spietato per ristabilire l'ordine morale.

Un dee-jay di Radio Monte Carlo riceve, durante la sua trasmissione notturna, una telefonata delirante. Uno sconosciuto, dalla voce artefatta, rivela di essere un assassino. Il fatto viene archiviato come uno scherzo di pessimo gusto. Il giorno dopo un pilota di Formula Uno e la sua compagna vengono trovati morti e orrendamente mutilati sulla loro barca.

Karen Harris, commander of Unit T, had come to the streets of London in an effort to curb the activities of an Italian cartel engaged in prostitution and abduction across Europe and beyond. Alongside this, many young homeless in the city are going missing with nothing being done about it. Karen starts investigating an agency that not only rents out companions but is involved in more-sinister operations.

In un Salento da cartolina, il sangue dei martiri delle sabbie traccia un confine labile tra vittime e carnefici. Mentre il sole inizia a infuocare le spiagge del Salento e la stagione turistica si appresta a entrare nel vivo, una scia di eventi inquietanti incrina la serenità apparente con morti sospette e messaggi criptici. Il commissario Luigi Gelsomino, uomo segnato da un passato che non smette di bruciare e da un futuro incerto, viene chiamato a fare luce su quella che all'inizio sembra solo una tragica fatalità.

L'estate avvampa a Palermo, la terra è arida e i bacini a secco. Dai rubinetti, come sempre in agosto, l'acqua scende appena, sui marciapiedi l'immondizia fermenta rendendo l'aria irrespirabile, e a nulla servono preghiere e invocazioni a santa Rosalia affinché faccia piovere. I poveri si muovono nei bassi come fantasmi nella polvere, i più abbienti hanno già lasciato i quartieri alti per le loro ville al mare.

Un pacco contenente una serie di enigmatici indizi, recapitato a casa del commissario Antonio Mariani, dà il via ad una sequenza di omicidi che turba la città di Genova. Un rompicapo da risolvere per il commissario che in questa prima indagine è affiancato dalla moglie Francesca, brillante ingegnere informatico che con il suo intuito e la sua determinazione si rivela una preziosa alleata, tanto più che il bersaglio finale sembra proprio essere Mariani. Che cosa si nasconde nel suo passato? Il prossimo pacco conterrà un indizio o una prova?

Un nuovo ipnotico caso per il commissario leccese Luigi Gelsomino. A Sulrano, nel cuore della Grecia Salentina, si muore ancora per il morso della taranta. Questo, almeno, il significato che i paesani danno alle morti che puntuali colpiscono due volte all'anno, nel corso delle celebrazioni che si concludono con la festa di San Paolo. Le autopsie confermano la presenza del veleno del ragno, ma Gelsomino è convinto che Sulrano sia solo un luogo dimenticato dallo scorrere del tempo e che, all'ombra dell'ignoranza dei suoi abitanti, qualcuno stia uccidendo indisturbato.