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Ten Little Tenants. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
The city is slipping into darkness. Blackouts spread. Tremors shake the streets. And in the middle of this growing unease, a murder is committed in Ash Building, a grim apartment block standing alone on the edge of town. The case is assigned to Lucius Asgren, the most brilliant detective on the force — a legend known for solving the impossible.…
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Murder at the Festival. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
At the Cantalago Festival, the country’s most watched music competition, every performance can launch a career — or destroy one. When Sara Rosso, a sharp-tongued rapper from Tropea, and Paolo Di Notte, a melancholic singer-songwriter from Jesolo, are unexpectedly paired into a duo, they are determined to make it to the final. But when legendary star Nico Spazio is found…
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The Mystery of Villa Polyphemus. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
At the beginning of July, twelve-year-old Scilla meets Leo on the beach of Malavoglia, along the Riviera of the Cyclops. Both are fascinated by a strange, decaying mansion overlooking the sea: an old lava-stone villa locals call Villa Polyphemus. Inside lives Countess Petra Marquett, an eccentric and reclusive crime writer. For years she shared the villa with her cousin Orsola,…
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This Book Contains a Crime. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
When a strange fantasy novel appears in the secret reading club of four friends, something doesn’t add up. The author died just days after publication — and the initials of the book’s chapters seem to spell out a desperate message: someone was trying to warn the world about a murder. To uncover the truth, the boys must decode hidden clues…
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Murder in the Band. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
The teenage rock band The IVs seems unstoppable: screaming fans, millions of followers, and a singer born for stardom. Then Lucky collapses on stage and dies hours later. The police arrest the band’s manager, but bassist Julie knows the story doesn’t add up. As fans turn vicious online and suspicion closes in around the band, Julie starts investigating. What she…
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The Samurai’s Secret. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
High on Mount Kagemine stands Mugen dōjō, a place frozen in time where discipline is absolute and the code of bushidō shapes every breath. For thirteen-year-old Takeshi Ito — expelled from multiple schools and with no future ahead — it is a last chance. But the mountain hides more than strict training. A legend lingers among the trees: a rōnin…
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Seven Suspects for a Murder. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
When a cryptic letter reaches Scotland Yard predicting a murder on a remote Scottish island, Inspector William Shakespeare is sent to investigate — though he has no patience for prophecies. On Kinraddie, cut off by storms and silence, a group of strangers has already gathered at the only inn, each hiding a different piece of the past. As tensions rise,…
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The Mystery of Gorse Manor. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
Eight-year-old Greta Sullivan has an unusual fascination with the macabre. While travelling by train to Gorse Manor, the country home of her aristocratic grandparents, she finds herself pondering a curious question: what colour is a dead person’s face? On the same train is Inspector Shakespeare — no relation to the playwright — recently transferred from London after stepping on the…
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Murder in the Mirror. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
Fourteen-year-old Tobias owns almost nothing in the world: a battered green jacket, oversized boots, and an extraordinary talent for repairing clocks. When he answers an advertisement for a clockmender at the Zeigermann Institute, a remote boarding school perched high in the Alps, he expects a simple job fixing timepieces. Instead, he finds himself entering a strange and unsettling world. The…
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Mystery Hotel. Puzzle Mysteries Collection
December 1961. Now an old man, Nino recounts to his granddaughter Clara an extraordinary night from his childhood, when he was eleven years old and helping his uncle Piero and aunt Ada at the modest Hotel Mimosa in the small spa town of Z***. Once famous during the Belle Époque for its casino and thermal baths, the town has long…
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Stinky Maggie
Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider and became a hero. I, on the other hand, have become a super skunk! Ten-year-old Maggie can handle raccoons, storms and life in the wild — but moving to a flower-mad Italian town where everyone is horrified by her skunk smell may be her toughest challenge yet. Told through the episodes of her…
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Animal Superstars
A lively and surprising collection of true stories celebrating the intelligence, courage and unpredictability of animals. Animal Superstars gathers twenty true stories of animals whose surprising abilities have challenged human expectations and changed the way we understand the animal world. With Jacopo Olivieri’s brilliant storytelling and Caterina Spiezio’s scientific insight, each episode becomes a fast-paced narrative in which fact is…
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The Forest
In a world ruled by animals, power is inherited, fear is enforced, and the smallest must pay the highest price. Humans have vanished, but fragments of their consciousness have filtered into the animal world. In the Forest, this inherited memory has transformed instinct into ideology and survival into control. The ancient balance of nature has been replaced by complex societies,…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 3: The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose
A coded advertisement, a vanished scientist, and a shadowy enemy who always seems one move ahead. When Irene travels to London to spend the winter holidays with her friends Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin, she expects strolls through Covent Garden and quiet days in the Shackleton Coffee House. Instead, the trio finds themselves entangled in one of their most dangerous…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 2: Last Act at the Opera House
A vanished diva, a theatre full of secrets, and three young detectives who refuse to believe in coincidences. When Irene Adler travels to London to hear the great soprano Ophelia Merridew, she expects nothing more than a dazzling performance. But the glamorous world of the Royal Opera hides rivalries, fears and ambitions — and when a man is murdered and…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. The Black Queen’s Trio
It all starts with a seaside town, a mysterious woman in black, and three extraordinary children who will one day become legends. When twelve-year-old Irene Adler arrives in the walled port town of Saint-Malo, she expects a quiet summer. Instead, she meets two boys who will change her life forever: sharp-minded Sherlock Holmes and daring Arsène Lupin. What begins as…
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Haven’s End
A sealed world. A forbidden line. A truth powerful enough to burn everything down. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca has never questioned the rules of Haven’s End — an isolated, self-sufficient settlement lost in the forests of North America. Until the day she crosses the Red Line and discovers the first crack in the only world she’s ever known. What begins as a…
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The Night of the Fireflies
Can the power of first love overcome the barriers of time and space? A poignant story that blends powerful feelings with savage loss. Two alternating female voices until the final truth is revealed. Teresa and Diego grow up together in San Giovanni, a small town in the Italian countryside. They are inseparable—Diego is Teresa’s playmate, her confidant, the shoulder she…
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Diary of Jane Burrasca: The Walkman Files
She wanted a smartphone. She got a vintage Walkman. Now begins the most chaotic diary ever recorded. Giovanna is about to turn ten and she only wants one thing: her first smartphone. She’s convinced that this small device is her official passport into the world of “grown-ups.” But when she opens her long-awaited present, she finds… a Walkman. With huge…
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The Fisher Girl
Egadi Islands, Sicily. Fourteen-year-old Scilla works as a swordfish fisher on her uncle’s felucca, the Cariddi, a traditional Sicilian swordfish-hunting boat. Her father died at sea two years earlier, and her mother left Marettimo when Scilla was still a child, vanishing without explanation. One day, during a perilous swordfish hunt, Scilla and Mansur — the lanzaturi who stands at the…
Book on a Tree
