The Black Rose Of Florence

Author : Michele Giuttari
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748129669
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Rose Of Florence written by Michele Giuttari and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly beautiful young woman is found dead in her Florence apartment. She lies on her bed, naked, a black rose between her legs. And the murders do not stop there: shortly afterwards, a woman is burned to death in a church, and a man is shot on the Ponte Vecchio. Chief Superindendent Michele Ferrara is all too familiar with the dark side of Florence. But he has never seen anything of this magnitude before - he is up against a mysterious, powerful enemy who would do anything to hide his identity, and manages to controls events at every turn. As more violent deaths occur, Ferrara has to face the most dangerous investigation in his entire career and must confront deadly secrets from his own past . . . Originally published in Italian as Le rose nere di Firenze.

Author : Michele Giuttari
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748113126
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Florentine Death written by Michele Giuttari and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his superiors and pilloried by the media, Ferrara finds time running out as the questions pile up. Is there a connection between the murders and the threatening letters he has received? Are his old enemies, the Calabrian Mafia, involved? And what part is played by a beautiful young woman facing a heart-rending decision, a priest troubled by a secret from his past, and an American journalist fascinated by the darker side of life? Ferrara confronts the murky underbelly of Florence in an investigation that will put not only his career but also his life on the line. Originally published in Italy as Scarabeo.

Author : Michele Giuttari
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1405521988
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Heart of Florence written by Michele Giuttari and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare . . .' After enduring years at the mercy of an infamous serial killer, the people of Florence rejoice at news of his death - until a senator is found brutally murdered. To Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara the case is very much alive. But, with a powerful adversary conspiring against him, he is trapped in a spiral of corruption and deadly speculation. As the truth comes to light, Ferrara is left standing face-to-face with something truly rotten at the heart of the city . . . The Dark Heart of Florence is an evocative, gripping work of detective fiction, and a major bestseller across Europe. Originally published in Italian as I Sogni Cattivi di Firenze. 'A crime author with impeccable credentials: Giuttari is no less than the former head of the Florence police force, where he was on the case of the notorious serial killer The Monster of Florence. Who better to write about the dark undercurrents beneath the surface of the city?' Booklist

Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351666320
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating National Allegories written by Alistair Rolls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars included here are leaders in one or more of these areas. The frame of this volume is imagological; its focus is on the ways in which national allegories are constructed and deconstructed, encompassing descriptions of national characteristics as they play out at the level of the local or the individual as well as broader, political analyses. Its corpus, crime fiction, is shown to be a privileged site for writing the national narrative, and often in ways that are more complex and dynamic than is suggested by the genre’s much-cited role as vehicle for a new realism. Finally, these two areas are problematised through the lens of translation, which is a crucial player in both the development of crime fiction and the formation, rather than simply the interlingual transfer, of national allegory. In this volume national allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, are shown to be eminently versatile, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting as opposed to sites for fixing meaning. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Translator.

Author : Florence Love Karsner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943369164
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tobacco Rose written by Florence Love Karsner and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred R. Senni
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483636305
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Rose written by Alfred R. Senni and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago the Rosa Nera, the ruthless Monfradini Mafia family in Sicily, was spreading like a plague. They coaxed every Mafioso throughout Italy to join their powerful Family. Those who would not join received a black rose, which was quickly followed by a violent death. The rest of the Families, knowing that to do nothing meant certain death, banded together and swooped down on the Monfradini Family. They were led by Angelo Procotchi, who gave orders to kill everyone, including women and children, so that there could be no retaliation. Fear again strikes the modern day Mafia Families. Descendents of Angelo Procotchi receive black roses sent by the Black Rose herself, a descendent of the only Monfradini to secretly escape the massacre. This beautiful woman, who calls herself the Black Rose, quickly becomes a major force on the East Coast, employing the same strategy as her great grandfather. John Romano fights to keep the Family members from the certain death the Black Rose has promised. This seems to be an insurmountable task as the Black Rose proves to be a very difficult adversary because of her cunning and her breathtaking beauty. She uses all of her skills to bring the very lonely John Romano under her spell.

Author : Thomas A. Cerra
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491853336
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Rose written by Thomas A. Cerra and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mischievous and dangerous hands of fate take hold of a young Irish couple and their families, guiding them from the bloody streets of Belfast to endure the indignities of Ellis Island. Once in America they find success in a country on the move, but their prosperity comes with a price. Love, life, and loss are woven into a unique tapestry and then torn apart by the very hands that had sewn it. Spanning three generations, they are cursed by a spirit that haunts their dreams, compelling the last of the family into a life of prostitution, intrigue, and murder.

Author : Millard Meiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691003122
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death written by Millard Meiss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events.

Author : Thomas B. Costain
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Rose written by Thomas B. Costain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Black Rose" by Thomas B. Costain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Elinor Florence
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459721454
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird's Eye View written by Elinor Florence and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior’s attention. Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm with her family in Saskatchewan. After Canada declares war against Germany in World War II, she joins the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as an aerial photographic interpreter. Working with intelligence officers at RAF Medmenham in England, Rose spies on the enemy from the sky, watching the war unfold through her magnifying glass. When her commanding officer, Gideon Fowler, sets his sights on Rose, both professionally and personally, her prospects look bright. But can he be trusted? As she becomes increasingly disillusioned by the destruction of war and Gideon’s affections, tragedy strikes, and Rose’s world falls apart. Rose struggles to rebuild her shattered life, and finds that victory ultimately lies within herself. Her path to maturity is a painful one, paralleled by the slow, agonizing progress of the war and Canada’s emergence from Britain’s shadow.