Tag Archives: Italy

One Divine Tale by Sarah Dunant

July 15, 2009 – 1:10 pm

I was lucky enough to snag an ARC (advanced readers copy) of Sarah Dunant’s latest novel Sacred Hearts to take with me on vacation last week. This is the third in this historical fiction trilogy (The Birth of Venus, In The Company of the Courtesan) that revolves around the different lives and fates of women [...]

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Crime Writer Douglas Preston, The Amanda Knox Case & The Judge That Binds

January 23, 2009 – 6:09 pm

Best selling author Douglas Preston has written and in some ways become a character in his own non-fiction account of a serial killer that stalked the hills of Florence, Italy in the 1970’s and 1980’s.  Preston’s investigation of the murders with co-writer Mario Spezi and the making of the book, “The Monster of Florence”, was [...]

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