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Camilla Trinchieri Books in Order

Browse Camilla Trinchieri books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start across her mysteries and novels.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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The Trouble with a Small Raise

by Camilla Trinchieri

1991

Simona Griffo goes to her Manhattan advertising office ready to demand a raise and finds her boss dead instead. When evidence points her way, she has to untangle office rivalries and secrets before the police settle on the wrong suspect.

The Trouble with Moonlighting

by Camilla Trinchieri

1991

While moonlighting as dialogue coach for an Italian film crew in New York, Simona Griffo gets pulled into movie-set chaos and a star's murder. To save an old friend and outthink the police, she starts digging behind the glamour.

The Trouble with Too Much Sun

by Camilla Trinchieri

1992

On an ad shoot at Club Med in Guadeloupe, Simona Griffo hopes for work and a little rest. Instead she finds a lost child, then the child's mother dead, and the tropical getaway turns into a knot of jealousy, lies, and danger.

The Trouble with Thin Ice

by Camilla Trinchieri

1994

A weekend wedding in Connecticut drops Simona Griffo into a tense family gathering at a troubled modernist house. When the family matriarch is found dead and old disappearances resurface, Simona cannot stop herself from digging.

The Trouble with Going Home

by Camilla Trinchieri

1995

Back in Rome to untangle trouble between her parents, Simona Griffo witnesses the murder of an American art student on her first day home. When the weapon points toward her mother's apartment, the case becomes painfully personal.

The Trouble with a Bad Fit

by Camilla Trinchieri

1996

Days before Fashion Week, one of Simona Griffo's clients is desperate to revive her label, then her model and muse is found murdered. Simona digs into the garment world while dodging attacks of her own.

The Trouble with a Hot Summer

by Camilla Trinchieri

1997

A summer in East Hampton turns deadly when ad legend Bud Warren asks Simona Griffo to look into his ex-wife's suspicious death, then winds up dead himself. With fires raging and suspects everywhere, Simona chases secrets from the beach back to Manhattan.

Price of Silence

by Camilla Trinchieri

2007

As Emma Perotti stands trial for murder, her family looks back on the arrival of An-ling Huang, a young artist who reopened old grief after the loss of Emma's daughter. What follows is a tense family drama built on secrets, guilt, and shifting truths.

The Breakfast Club Murder

by Camilla Trinchieri

2014

Recently divorced caterer Lori Corvino is already juggling her daughter, her mother, and a shaky new start when her ex-husband's new wife is murdered nearby. To protect her family and clear the mess, Lori starts asking questions with help from her breakfast club friends.

Seeking Alice

by Camilla Trinchieri

2016

This World War II novel follows an Italian diplomat, his American wife, and their children from Prague to Rome and beyond as war tears the family apart. Years later, a daughter tries to understand what really happened to Alice.

Murder in Chianti

by Camilla Trinchieri

2020

Widowed former NYPD detective Nico Doyle moves to his late wife's Tuscan hometown looking for quiet, not murder. After he finds a body in the woods and adopts the victim's dog, local officer Perillo draws him into Gravigna's buried secrets.

Murder on the Vine

by Camilla Trinchieri

2022

When beloved bartender Cesare Costanzi disappears, Nico Doyle expects bad news. He gets worse when OneWag leads him to Cesare's body in a friend's car, pulling Nico and Perillo into a case tangled with old loyalties and vineyard money.

The Bitter Taste of Murder

by Camilla Trinchieri

2022

Life in Gravigna is settling down for ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle until a swaggering wine critic enrages local vintners and restaurateurs, then turns up dead. To clear a friend and sort truth from village gossip, Nico joins Perillo on a prickly case.

The Road to Murder

by Camilla Trinchieri

2024

An elderly widow is found dead at her piano, and because the lone witness speaks only English, Nico Doyle is pulled in immediately. What looks like a local case quickly opens into a tangle of lovers, daughters, money, and property.

Murder in Pitigliano

by Camilla Trinchieri

2025

When a little girl slips a note into OneWag's collar asking for help, Nico Doyle is drawn into a murder case far beyond Gravigna. To clear her fugitive father, he travels to Pitigliano and works through a long, painful list of suspects.

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Murder Returns to Gravigna

by Camilla Trinchieri

2026

The death of Gravigna's butcher hits Nico Doyle close to home, especially when townspeople begin accusing the dead man's much younger wife. As old grudges and local tensions flare, Nico helps Perillo with a case that shakes the whole village.

Where should I start?

If you want Tuscan village mysteries: Murder in ChiantiThe Bitter Taste of MurderMurder on the Vine
If you want the earlier Manhattan mysteries: The Trouble with a Small RaiseThe Trouble with MoonlightingThe Trouble with Too Much Sun
If you want a lighter standalone mystery: The Breakfast Club Murder
If you want darker family suspense: Price of Silence
If you want historical fiction: Seeking Alice

Author bio

Camilla Trinchieri was born in Prague to an Italian father and an American mother. Because her father worked as a diplomat, she spent her childhood moving from country to country, living in seven cities across six countries before she was twelve. She has said that this rootless start, and the four languages she learned along the way, helped make her a writer.

She was crossing borders long before she was writing about them.

Trinchieri came to the United States at twelve, studied at Barnard College, then returned to Italy. In Rome she worked in the movie industry as a dubbing producer and director, working with figures such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Lina Wertmuller. She moved back to New York City in 1980, married, earned an MFA from Columbia's graduate writing program, and later became an American citizen.

Her path into fiction started in a very human way. She has written that while working in a New York advertising agency, she got so fed up with a boss who would not give her a raise that she killed him off on the page. That became The Trouble with a Small Raise, the first Simona Griffo mystery, published under the names Trella Crespi and Camilla T. Crespi. The series follows a smart, food-loving Italian immigrant trying to make a life in Manhattan while repeatedly stumbling into murder.

Those early books, including The Trouble with Moonlighting, The Trouble with a Bad Fit, and The Trouble with Going Home, show what Trinchieri does especially well: lively settings, sharp social observation, and women who are trying to hold onto themselves while life keeps shifting. Readers often come for the mystery, then stay for the city detail, the food, and Simona's mix of curiosity, worry, and stubbornness. She later returned to a lighter mystery mode with The Breakfast Club Murder, about recently divorced Lori Corvino trying to rebuild her life in Connecticut.

Food is never far from the plot.

Later books widened her range. Price of Silence is a darker family mystery about Emma Perotti, on trial for murder after a young Chinese artist enters her life and stirs up old grief. Seeking Alice, which draws loosely on her mother's wartime experience in Europe, follows an Italian diplomat, his American wife, and their children through Prague, Rome, and beyond during World War II. That novel won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award. She has also published short fiction and essays, but even in different forms she keeps circling loss, divided loyalties, family secrets, and the pressure history puts on ordinary people.

More recently, she found a new home for her mystery writing in Tuscany. Beginning with Murder in Chianti, her Tuscan books follow former NYPD detective Nico Doyle as he settles in his late wife's hometown of Gravigna, helped along by relatives, good meals, and a dog called OneWag. The Bitter Taste of Murder, Murder on the Vine, and later books in the series blend village life, grief, food, and careful detective work in a way that feels warm, funny, and quietly sad at the same time.

Trinchieri has long lived in New York City, but Italy stays close in her fiction. Whether she is writing about Manhattan ad offices, wartime Prague and Rome, or the Chianti hills, she keeps circling the same question: how do people build a life after being uprooted?

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