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An American living in Rome with his daughter after his wife's suicide tracks a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced.

When her idyllic Sicilian retirement is interrupted by one of her unfaithful detective inspector husband’s cases, the irascible Auntie Poldi uncovers shocking secrets in her effort to rescue an in-law from the Mafia.

When the wife of the leader of a Florentine political movement seemingly commits suicide, leaving behind a newborn son and a devastated husband, Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini uncovers her hidden life as a woman consumed by a deadly obsession.

"When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra. Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the pot for the neighbors who stop by to ask her advice on life...

Sixteenth-century Renaissance woman and renowned physician Gabriella Mondini searches across Europe for her missing father, without whom she can no longer continue to treat her Venetian patients, who need her desperately.

To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other artists and scientists under suspicion for being forward thinking individuals.