Novels set in Venice

[FourChimneys]

My cousin is going to Venice in the spring and I'd like to buy her a book set there. Apart from the obvious Death in Venice are there other good novels? I don't think she would enjoy chick lit or sci-fi.

TIA

I read one called the Venice sketchbook, set in WW2, female protagonist goes to Venice to sketch, gets recruited by the allies to report on boat comings and goings.

Donna Leon novels are set in Venice.

Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series is a very readable and non-gory detective series set in Venice.
Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord is a very intelligent, satisfying and imaginative children’s novel about two boys who run away to Venice.

Miss Garnet's Angel by Sally Vickers is quite a popular one, though I'm not that keen on it, to be honest:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/574220.Miss_Garnet_s_Angel

There's also Don't Look Now, Daphne du Maurier's story on which the famous film is based.

Really good suggestions, thank you everyone. I'll do a bit of research and read some reviews.

I loved Garden of Angels by David Hewson.

I love Miss Garnetts Angel ! Also the Thief Lord is a kids book but lovely.

@lol beans I also love Venice sketchbook

The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen was my first thought also.

Also Italian Girl by Lucinda Riley.(Italy in general, rather than Venice )

Stone Virgin by Barry Unsworth. I read it decades ago and loved it, but don't know if I'd feel differently about it now.

It was some time ago now, but I remember thoroughly enjoying ‘In the Company of the Courtesan’ by Sarah Dunant, set in renaissance Venice

All the good ones have been mentioned . The most [true to Venice as it is now are the Donna Leon ones and you can pick out places and bars that are mentioned. Miss garnetts Angel is a lovely book . If your cousin needs help with anything I am a travel agency ( incoming ) in Venice !!

Ian McKewan’s The Comfort of Strangers (clue: anything other than comforting) is surely set in Venice?

The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith.

This, I absolutely loved it but it was a couple of years ago 🤷‍♀️

I loved Miss Garnet’s Angel

"Those Who Walk Away" by Patricia Highsmith is set in Venice. It's a very atmospheric book.

All the Venetian books by Philip Gwynne Jones, especially To Venice with Love, about he he packed up and went to live there

Carnevale

Venice, Casanova and Mad Bad Lord Byron.

Us by David Nichols is one of my favourite books - quite a few chapters are set in Venice

Another vote for Carnevale

I have only just noticed all the new replies, thank you so much everyone. I will do more googling but I think I will buy my cousin two or three books.

The Floating Book by Michelle Lovric. It must be 15 years since I read it so can't remember much about the plot, except that it's set in Venice in the 15th century with interweaving chapters set I think in Roman times and the writing was mesmerising.

Giacomo Casanova: The Story of my Life. The original 18th century biography is set in Venice and is actually a great read!

*autobiography

City of Falling Angels - John Berendt. It’s fantastic . Same author as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil