Rick Montoya Italian Mystery Books in Order

Translator Rick Montoya poses as an art buyer in Tuscany to help expose traffickers in burial urns. A gallery employee’s death makes him a murder suspect, leaving him caught between the local police and dangerous collectors.

Rick Montoya’s skiing holiday in the Dolomites is interrupted when police ask him to help find a missing American banker. The discovery of a body draws the translator into local rivalries and a contentious political campaign.

An interpreting assignment at an art conference turns dangerous when a professor is murdered. Rick Montoya investigates with local police while pursuing the mystery of two missing paintings, whose history may be connected to the killing.

Rick Montoya visits Orvieto to persuade his cousin to end an embarrassing affair. The murder of an American visitor draws him into a police investigation, and a second killing raises questions about his own family’s connection.

Hired to interpret for a murdered fisherman’s funeral party, Rick Montoya also agrees to observe its members for the police. A dispute over the victim’s land exposes family tensions and rivalries that may explain his death.

Newly arrived in Rome, translator Rick Montoya is recruited by his police-officer uncle to investigate a count’s death. Learning to live in the city becomes entangled with tracing the victim’s friendships and oral-history collecting.

Rick Montoya accompanies his girlfriend Betta to Urbino, where she must collect a valuable Renaissance drawing. When its owner is murdered and the artwork disappears, their intended romantic weekend becomes a joint investigation.

Rick Montoya replaces a missing guide on a religious tour of Assisi as a favor to an old friend. When the guide turns up dead, he helps police interview pilgrims and examine the victim’s questionable dealings.

Rick Montoya helps a college friend discover why his great-grandfather abruptly left Tuscany for America a century earlier. Their family-history investigation unfolds alongside Rick’s girlfriend Betta’s search in Rome for a stolen Etruscan sculpture.