Showing results by author "Mario Giordano"

Auntie Poldi, sassy, brassy, and 60, moves to Sicily for a quiet alcohol-fuelled retirement. A murder spoils her plans. This is the first novel in a charming new mystery series set in Sicily and laced with Italian sensuality and humor. It features an amateur sleuth, the sassy and foul-mouthed Auntie Poldi. Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view, but fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case.

Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around. When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino - and under mysterious circumstances at that - Poldi will not take it lying down. Perhaps it's in her blood, but Auntie Poldi's hunting instincts have never felt more alive. Justice must be served - if it's the last thing she does....

Vor der Pirateninsel Tortuga geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Immer mehr Schiffe verschwinden spurlos in den Weiten des Ozeans. Der Wilde Olaf und seine Männer beschließen das Rätsel zu lösen und stechen an Bord der Wilden Charlotte todesmutig in See. Doch ein Sturm kommt ihnen in die Quere und öffnet das Tor zu einer anderen Welt, dem Nebenland, in dem Nichts so ist, wie sie es kennen. Für Messer-Ole, den Schrecklichen Sven, Harpunier Einauge, Steuermann Stotter-Claas, die Zwillinge Rimski und Korsakov, den Indianer Mondstein und die Hafenkatze Thomse wird die Reise zum größten Abenteuer aller Zeiten!

Meerblick. Sonne. Ruhe. Mehr will Poldi nicht, als sie kurz nach ihrem sechzigsten Geburtstag von München nach Sizilien zieht. Dabei hat sie aber nicht mit der Familie ihres verstorbenen Exmannes gerechnet. Denn die, Sizilianer durch und durch, wollen Poldi natürlich das Dolce Vita nahebringen. Das war's dann mit der Ruhe. Als wäre es damit nicht genug: Eines Tages verschwindet Valentino, der Poldi in Haus und Garten ausgeholfen hat, spurlos. Ist er etwa in die Fänge der Mafia geraten?

After the shocking abdication and disappearance of Pope John Paul III, close confidants of the Pope are being murdered. Peter Adam, a German journalist, and his American colleague, Loretta, begin to investigate the case. Their only lead is a book about mystical symbols predicting an unsettling event which is to take place in ten days time.

Sans donner la moindre explication, Jean-Paul III, le successeur de Jean-Paul II, vient d'annoncer sa renonciation, avant de mystérieusement disparaître. Plusieurs de ses proches ayant été assassinés, personne ne sait même s'il est toujours en vie... Alors qu'un conclave va se réunir pour élire le nouveau pape, le journaliste Peter Adam, spécialiste des affaires vaticanes, se sent investi d'une mission : retrouver Jean-Paul III.

While in Rome preparations are being made for the conclave, Peter Adam, still imprisoned on this "Island of the Light", learns more about the murder spree...

Back in Rome, Peter discovers his entire body covered in an enigmatic tattoo, including images of a man with the head of a lion. He still has no memory of the five missing days. When he discovers that his brother Nicholas has apparently been murdered in Cologne, he fears he himself might have killed him.

Aided by Don Luigi and the Saudi Arabian ambassador, Peter and Maria arrive at Clairvaux where they search for the full text of the prophecy...

Peter is interrogated by the Italian Police and tortured by secret service agents. Without any recollection of what happened during the previous few hours...

A 12th century letter confirms Peter and Mary's suspicion that the Templars were in possession of a terrible secret that is now threatening the Church...

While the College of Cardinals, isolated from the outside works, casts it first ballot, Maria frees Peter from a terrible imprisonment. Franz Laurenz...

Cardinal Menendez wants to be Pope, at any prize. A man by the name of Aleister Crowley makes him a tempting offer. Peter has an eye-opening...

While the man called Nikolas continues his violent murder spree, Maria comes to Peter's rescue in Sicily. New clues found by Don Luigi require Peter...

Peter Adam wakes up on an oil rig to discover he has survived a mortal injury, and learns that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Don Luigi, has been elected pope. The news is worrying, not least because it appears Pope Peter II is doing everything possible to fulfil the prophecy of Malachi. Following a migraine attack, Peter wakes up to find himself in Cologne Cathedral after a gap in his life of five days of which he has no memory. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose around him.

Peter and Maria, trying to decipher the meaning of his tattoo, find themselves in the Pantheon in Rome where they stumble on the body of a Roman legionary with one of amulets and a document in ancient Mayan in his hand. They then come across a library of occult books where they find Franz Laurenz, the former pope.

Peter, paralysed by a nerve poison given him by Franz Laurenz hears that the occult library under the Pantheon contains an ancient encrypted book of Evil. Incredulously he also discovers that in fact he isn't Peter but Nicholas! Laurenz and his disciples are moving him from the library to a safe place when they are set upon by the Bearers of the Light.

In the Himalayas a young Buddhist monk makes a horrific discovery. Peter, trapped in the body of his brother, realises his tattoo is the key to deciphering the Book of Dzyan, a catalogue of evil. Simultaneously, a young Jesuit hacker in the Vatican discovers a conspiracy and Yoko Tanaka manages to decipher parts of Peter's tattoo.

Marina meets Sheikh Al Husseini on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem while Maria comes across the ancient secret of the Templars at Oak Island in the USA, only to have it immediately stolen from her by Kelly and Pope Peter II. Maria, Laurenz and Nakashim are left tied up on the island next to a Red Quicksilver bomb. All too late Maria and Laurenz realise what a terrible threat the Templars' secret poses. But Peter II has begun to realise it too.

Urs Bühler leaves Kathmandu to try to help Peter only to come across Marina, lying in a strange coma in a Buddhist monastery. Peter frees Nicholas and together they break into the secret Area 23 to uncover a shocking secret.