The Venice Series · 1

The Medici Murders

1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired killers.

Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man even fewer will miss, is stabbed by a stiletto blade on the exact same spot, his body dropping into the canal.

Can the story of the first murder explain the attack on Godolphin? A Times thriller of the month.

The Venice Series · 2

The Borgia Portrait

When a body is discovered in a hidden crypt beneath the checkerboard courtyard of the palazzo, Arnold Clover is drawn into a centuries-old mystery rooted in Venetian history. Lying with the body is a document, a story of an episode in Casanova’s colourful life, and within it a set of clues that might lead to the location of the painting. But it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding the painting.

The search for the lost Lucrezia quickly becomes a race through the secret history of Venice, one with potentially deadly consequences.

The Venice Series · 3

The Four Deadly Seasons

A centuries-old score. A city built on secrets. A melody that kills.
When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours swirl around a rediscovered manuscript: the original score for The Four Seasons, penned in Vivaldi’s own hand.
But is it a masterpiece lost to time or a masterful forgery?

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The Venice Series · 4

The Devil in Dorsoduro

As locals flee the August heat, retired archivist Arnold Clover plans to enjoy the rare silence – until his friend in the Carabinieri asks him to check on an elderly English woman. He finds her dead inside her remote and faded mansion— surrounded by strange symbols and ritualistic objects that suggest her interests ran far deeper than history books.

Left with nothing but unanswered questions, and the woman’s devoted dachshund, Bruno, Arnold is drawn into a shadowy world beneath Venice’s postcard beauty and begins to peel back the layers of his mysterious old friend’s life — and discovers a Venice few tourists ever see.