Fantasy Venice

[Storm Centurion]

I'm looking for the name of a book and the author that came out around 2001, taking pace in a fantastical or fictional Venice. Possibly having a great deal to do with intrigue and food.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

If it was a YA book it might have been City of Masks by Mary Hoffman, or The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer. Although I don't remember much about food in either one of them, they both have a lot of intrigue.

Or it could be Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord. I haven't read that one, but I know it takes place in Venice.

 

[ashewyntr]

Could it be Shadow of the Lion by Mercedes Lackey?

 

[Storm Centurion]

Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think any of those fit. I've read Thief Lord and Shadow of the Lion. And its neither of those.

And its definitely not YA. I remember it being very very adult. (Themes of sex and even som homosexuality)

But thanks for the help.

 

[Pyan]

Maybe Angel with the Sword, by CJ Cherryh, or one of the Merovingian Nights multi-author series set on the same shared world?

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Ah, I thought of a whole series of books by one of my favorite authors, Tanith Lee, The Secret Books of Venus.

The titles are Faces Under Water, Saint Fire, A Bed of Earth, and Venus Preserved.

Still don't remember any food, but lots of intrigue, violence, and sex.

 

[Storm Centurion]

All of those sound good, but they aren't the book I'm looking for. I'll go look for them at the library.

This specific book I'm looking for, I lent out just after I bought it but the person moved and too it with them.

 

[clovis-man]

Well, The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers starts out in Venice and involves food and drink (mostly drink). But it was published in 1979 and ends up in Vienna, not Venice.

 

[Storm Centurion]

Nope, not the Drawing of th Dark. Read it and loved it, though.

 

[Taltos]

Maybe Veniss Underground (2003) - at least spelling is somewhat similar.

 

[Winter Lord]

Shadow of the Lion by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Lion