David P Wagner
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Winding up an interpreter job in Bassano del Grappa at a conference on artist Jacopo da Bassano, a famous native son, Rick Montoya looks forward to exploring the town. And it would be fun to look into the history of two long-missing paintings by the master, a topic that caused the only dust-up among the normally staid group of international scholars attending the seminar. Bassano has much to offer to Rick the tourist, starting with its famous covered...
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Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Orvieto -- its very name brings to mind priceless art, colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most famous cathedral facade in Italy, a structure of gothic spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as well. When Rick Montoya moved to his mothers Italy from his fathers Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work as a freelance translator using his dual heritage, he didnt expect to...
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
While Betta has official business in Urbino -- namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector-- she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind. When the Spaniard is found murdered and the drawing stolen, Betta must shift back into art cop mode, and Rick's official services are required after all. Will this lovers' getaway literally be to die for?
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role to flush out priceless burial urn traffickers, he soon becomes a suspect a suspect in the death of a gallery employee.
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi. The wealthy...
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Joining a college friend for a skiing vacation on the Italian Alps, Rick Montoya reluctantly investigates the murder of an American banker and uncovers a wide range of suspects, in a case that is challenged by the victim's beautiful heiress sister.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The body rolled off the planks and slipped into the water with barely a splash, quickly embraced by the steady current flowing toward the city of Mantova. It comes to rest against rocks overlooked by the grim ramparts of Castello di San Giorgio as the river Mincio flows on towards the Po and the Adriatic Sea"--Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When an old college friend leading a religious tour in Assisi asks interpreter Rick Montoya to fill in for their guide who's gone missing, Rick is happy to oblige. He's looking forward to seeing his old friend, and the food and wine of Umbria sound like the perfect reward for a tense translation job he's just completed for the police in Palermo involving witness testimony against the mafia. But when the shady tour guide is found dead the next morning...
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