Ergebnis für "The Italian Girl" in Krimis & Thriller

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life: Dance like nobody’s watching. Travel the world. And fall hopelessly in love. I aimed to do all three. I went to Italy to find myself. But he found me.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working-class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades".

Sommerurlaub nach dem Uni-Abschluss: Kate verbringt mit ihren Freunden eine Woche in Frankreich. Als die geheimnisvolle Französin Severine zur Gruppe stößt, gerät die Dynamik gefährlich durcheinander. Nach einem Eklat am letzten Tag verschwindet sie spurlos. Zehn Jahre später: Auf dem Gelände wird Severines Leiche gefunden - ermordet. Die ehemaligen College-Freunde geraten ins Visier der Polizei. Vor allem Kate hat ein Motiv, denn sie konnte Severine von Anfang an nicht ausstehen.

Bologna, 1944, le strade brulicano di soldati tedeschi. La diciannovenne Leila Venturi entra nella Resistenza dopo la notizia scioccante che Rebecca, la sua migliore amica e figlia di un importante uomo d’affari ebreo, è stata brutalmente deportata in un campo di concentramento.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.