Years of travelling around Italy collecting culinary knowledge has made a cookery writer fat, if also famous and very wise. His reputation earns him an invitation to stay at the castle of the seventh ...

There is a subgenre of crime fiction that is less concerned with making the pulse race, or heart bleed, than with causing the stomach to rumble. Gastro-crime has not made much headway in Britain, ...

Preoccupied almost equally by fine dining and murder, this is a very agreeable whodunnit set in the castle of Barone di Roccapendente in Tuscany over a weekend in the late 19th century. Some guests ...

Marco Malvaldi, trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis. Europa/World Noir (Penguin, dist.), $16 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-60945-205-6 Even though the geriatric sleuths in Malvadi's modest second ...

Marco Malvaldi, trans. from the Italian by Howard Curtis. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-184-4 In this enjoyable series debut, Malvaldi beckons readers into Bar Lume, ...