Book 1: Miss Bee and the Corpse in the Library (November 2024 – 256 pp.)

• Over 100,000 copies sold

London, 1920s. Beatrice Bernabò, known as Miss Bee, is a twenty-year-old Italian who has been living in the English capital for a few years. Together with her sisters, Beatrice has moved in with her father Leonida, a professor of Italian studies at the University. Her father enjoys the protection of the Italian ambassador to the UK, who can only be a fascist. Invited to dinner by the noblewoman across the road, Mrs Ashbury – widow and mother of a unique and charming son, the perturbing Christopher known as Kit – Beatrice finds herself, despite herself, in the middle of a murder mystery that is at the same time a love triangle: if one is not guilty, the other is. But who is she in love with, one or the other? Set in the glossy and decadent world of the British aristocracy awakening from the nightmare of the First World War, amidst seductive viscounts and detectives who dream of cutting off their heads as in the French Revolution, this Miss Bee adventure is a sparkling and enchanting combination of suggestions – from Agatha Christie to Downton Abbey, from the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to Bridgerton – to which is added the unmistakable uniqueness of Alessia Gazzola’s touch.

Book 2: Miss Bee and the Prince of Winter (January 2025 – 250 pp)

• Over 60,000 copies sold

Derbyshire, December 1924 It is a cold Christmas at Alconbury Hall, the country residence of the noble Lennox family. So cold that even generous doses of sherry fail to warm the mind and heart of Lady Millicent Carmichael, as she dictates her unseemly memoirs to her new secretary. And yet, the young improvised secretary, who answers to the name of Beatrice Bernabò known as Miss Bee, could not have a warmer, indeed, a more incandescent heart and mind. Perhaps this is due to the splendid atmosphere of Alconbury Hall, with its crackling fireplaces, its elevating dinners, and the singular and cheerful British traditions to be honoured. Most probably due to the Viscount, the charming Julian Lennox. Nor should the eccentric group of guests be overlooked, starting with the gloomy Alexander, Julian’s cousin with Russian ancestry, unbearably handsome but with a dark and anxious air, a real winter prince. Beatrice, however, is still unable to grasp the undercurrent of tensions that runs through that perturbing Christmas atmosphere. Tensions that will soon lead to events of increasing seriousness: a theft, an attempted murder, a disappearance… Will Miss Bee manage to get to the bottom of the unpredictable and dangerous enigma?

Book 3: Miss Bee and the Embassy Ghost (March 2025 – 256 pp)

• Over 50,000 copies sold

London, 1925. In order to prevent her from causing further trouble, Leonida Bernabò finally found the ideal accommodation for his vivacious and wild second daughter Beatrice: a solid job at the Italian embassy. Miss Bee thus finds herself juggling secretarial duties and prestigious events, such as a reception in honour of a delegation from Florence, the Bernabòs’ hometown. The Uffizi director and his archaeologist colleague are welcomed together with Edoardo, the Italian ambassador’s son, and his fiancée, Elisa. Viscount Julian Lennox – towards whom Beatrice still has more overwhelming feelings than she would like – and his betrothed Lady Octavia are not missing either.But in the following days and especially nights, strange and frightening phenomena happen in the embassy: sudden noises, whispers in the dark and disturbing presences. The only explanation seems the most implausible: a ghost. Things get worse, however, so much so that the police have to intervene in the person of Chief Inspector Archer Blackburn, an old and intriguing acquaintance of Beatrice. But does the ghost of the embassy really exist? Or is some far more concrete and threatening force of nature at work? Between love and trembling, it is up to Miss Bee to find out.