Italian Crime

I didn’t know he was a billionaire Mafia Don... All I ever wanted was to let my voice touch the heavens. The lights of the grand stage, the thrill of the applause – they were my world. Until I caught the attention of Philippe Accardo, a billionaire casino owner. The night our eyes met across the crowded opera house, my life changed forever. He isn't just any patron of the arts. He's a Mafia Don, the embodiment of a danger I've only ever sung about. His charm and lifestyle drew me in like hypnotism, Dominating my mind, body and soul. Now, my heart is torn between the stage and his ...

Un cadavere orrendamente mutilato emerge dalle acque di un bucolico canale che costeggia la periferia di Oxford. Si tratta di un corpo privo della testa, delle mani, delle gambe. Scoprire l’identità della vittima, prima ancora di quella dell’assassino: sarà questa la sfida fondamentale per l’ispettore Morse e il sergente Lewis. E le tracce, un biglietto nella tasca del morto, portano inequivocabilmente all’Università.

"I can explain." That's what everyone says when they're caught breaking the law. City Council Commissioner Sloane Bishop is a murderer. I don't think she meant to kill her abusive ex. But when I walk through the door, he's breathing his last. I was on my way to do the job myself; too bad she beat me to it. Now the cops want to know what happened. They're sniffing around and asking questions. Sloane has a choice: marry me or go to prison. After all, they can't make your husband testify against you... It's a spousal privilege marriage of convenience. Filthy Sinner is the third book in The ...

Mission: get close to a mafia heir, not get pregnant with his baby. I stepped into his world as a challenger in a street race. Dario Marchetti, known as an unstoppable predator on the asphalt, is dangerous, alluring and the heir of the Marchetti Empire. My mission’s clear: infiltrate the mafia and bring them down. But as the engines revive, one look into his dark eyes and I know I’m in trouble. I’m inches away from victory when he almost runs me over the edge. He rescues me before the car slips into the abyss, and I’m gone with the wind. Then a mysterious invitation to a masquerade ...

In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

Il commissario Montalbano indaga tra l'immaginaria Vigàta e Tindari, il promontorio a picco sul mare "col piccolo, misterioso teatro greco e la spiaggia a forma di una mano con le dita rosa". Un triplice omicidio è avvenuto - un giovane dongiovanni che viveva al di sopra dei suoi mezzi apparenti, due anziani pensionati seppelliti in casa che improvvisamente decidono una gita a Tindari. Li collega, sembra, solo un condominio.

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. Villa Gregory is remote; the gathered guests are rich – what could possibly go wrong? Inside the high walls of the palatial villa, Dan discovers the gathered guests are some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world, with plans for world domination. With so much at stake, Dan redoubles his efforts to keep everyone safe. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks – especially considering Anna’s own daughter is in the frame.

Amelia is the most beautiful mafia princess of them all. What she doesn’t want to be is just another broken mafia wife. She came to me for help to escape her fate. I’m the only one the Famiglia doesn’t even think about messing with. I am Mauro Fieri and no one dares to challenge me. Only Amelia never got that memo. Now she’s my new obsession. I have lots of ideas for dealing with this sassy beauty. And I will do whatever it takes to keep her. I’ll give her the whole wide world. However, there will be a price to pay. This runaway mafia bride will find no escape from me.

I took a joyride with a mobster… And now there’s a bump in my belly. This guy oozes danger and testosterone. Race car driver, mobster, and the CEO of Royalty Rentals. The kingpin of speed in a city that never sleeps. And the son of a mafia Don. Emilio Fiore was built to command. Sleek, chiseled and abs on loan from God. But I’m no damsel waiting to be dominated. As a lawyer, I’m used to taming tyrants. Our connection’s instant, accelerating at high speed. Before I know it, we’re back at his place. But I’m not one to be tamed… Until he purrs in my ears like one of his high-...

Count Falier urges his Venetian son-in-law Guido Brunetti to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under arcane Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. Then Gonzalo unexpectedly, and literally, drops dead on the street, and his good friend Berta Dodson, just arrived in Venice for the memorial service, is strangled in her hotel room.

Will he avenge his family or acknowledge the woman he loves is no longer his enemy? Fifteen years ago, the mafia murdered my family. I’m Connor Barrett - the most powerful man in NYC. I fund politicians, sleep with beautiful women and my enemies don’t know I exist. Yet. I’ve been single-minded in my revenge until a woman with sinful curves pours a drink down the front of my Armani tux. When I learn her surname and discover she is a mafia princess, I have a decision to make. Use her or toss her. But I’m not keeping her. When I agree to become her fake fiancé to get close to her ...

When Liliana Ricci's father arranges her marriage to powerful mafia boss Nicholas Romano, she expects a cold union of convenience. But their initial attraction sparks into fiery passion and Liliana finds herself falling deeply in love. Just as happiness seems within reach, long-buried secrets about her mother's murder emerge, threatening to tear her family apart. Liliana and Nicholas navigate the dangers of the criminal underworld, defending their empire against rival families while investigating her parents' shadowy past. As clues point to her own father's involvement in her mother's death...

She's pregnant with my baby, now she's on the run. Nicolette was supposed to be a one night stand. She's the daughter of my brother's sworn enemy. But a few nights in a fancy hotel room changes everything. I heard Nicolette left town, running from the man that knocked her up. Except I'm the only man she's been with. If she's going to be the mother of my child, she belongs to me. I don't care how long I have to hunt her or what it takes to keep her. Nicolette Calvino will be mine. Savage Prince is the fourth book in The Valenti Crime Family series, featuring a morally grey anti-hero that ...

The plan was to start over here with the picture-perfect Genova’s pastry elite; not to catch the culprit who iced the last chef. When Paolo’s death goes from natural causes to murder, my trip to the beautiful Italian harbour town turns into a case of spine-chilling whodunit. I whip up confections, not conspiracies. But my scruffy clue-sniffing beagle has different plans for us in this sun-kissed town; to remove the stench of murder. Motives linger as the sous chef, Enzo, craves the spotlight, while Luca, the supplier, has a sour taste left behind after a heated argument. Even Giulia, ...

When Liliana is kidnapped and beaten by a rival mafia family, Nicholas will stop at nothing to rescue his wife and exact vengeance. Aiding in her daring escape is Jocelyn, a captive woman Nicholas promises to free along with her daughter. But the mission to save them becomes complicated when Detective Samuel Turner reveals there is a mole in the police department working for the nefarious Bianchi family. As Nicholas and Liliana fight to protect their family empire, they uncover secrets that make them question whom they can trust. Long-buried truths about Liliana’s own mother’s ...

Quando i quattro partner di un importante studio legale rimangono uccisi in un misterioso incidente aereo, le loro vedove devono unirsi per scoprire la verità in questo romanzo esplosivo che vi terrà con il fiato sospeso.

Il colonnello Annibale Canessa, protagonista di questo crudo romanzo noir, dovrà fare i conti con un passato che non può dimenticare. L'anziano colonnello Canessa, uomo di punta nella lotta al terrorismo negli Anni Settanta, è costretto a tornare in pista per risolvere l'omicidio di suo fratello, ucciso a colpi di kalashnikov insieme a un ex terrorista che lui stesso aveva arrestato durante gli Anni di Piombo. Un thriller dal ritmo incalzante, degno delle atmosfere milanesi del miglior Scerbanenco. Roberto Perrone nasce a Rapallo nel 1957.

'An emotional and cinematic journey through the mountains of Southern Italy and into the scarred heart of an assassin...'When elusive Italian hit man, ‘The Winemaker’, refuses to carry out a final job for his American crime boss, a ruthless, charismatic assassin is sent to Italy to track him down. In an increasingly corporate America that’s impatiently banging on the door of the 21st century, all the old ways are changing – but in the mountains of Southern Italy there’s one man who is still ‘Old Country’. Funny, poignant, violent, suspenseful, Old Country is a gangster story ...

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La corsa all'alba, la colazione al bar, poi nove ore di lavoro all'archivio del tribunale, una cena piena di silenzi e la luce spenta alle dieci: Carlo Cappai è l'incarnazione della metodicità, della solitudine. Dell'ordinarietà. Nessuno sospetta che ai suoi occhi quel labirinto di scatole, schede e cartelle non sia affatto carta morta. Tutto il contrario: quei faldoni parlano, a volte gridano la loro verità inascoltata, la loro richiesta di giustizia.