The award-winning mystery-action historical-fiction series

Peter J Marzano, Author

Peter J Marzano, Author

Book cover titled "Litany of Sorrows" by Peter J Marzano featuring historical black and white images of a Nazi officer, a crucifix, a church dome, and abstract street art.
Book cover of 'Search and Deception' by Peter J. Marzano, featuring black and white photographs of architectural elements, a sculpture, a brick relief with a face, and traditional Dutch windmills.
Book cover titled 'Taken from Carinhall' by Peter J Marzano featuring black-and-white photos including a man in Nazi military uniform, Nazi symbols, a silhouette of a person riding a camel, and a military aircraft, with the publisher 'Swan Publishers' and location 'Durham, CT' listed at the bottom.

Swan Publishers, Durham, Connecticut

Caroline Hewitt - SAG Narrator

Matt Haynes - SAG Narrator

Karl von Richter, a handsome young German with a sinister future, is injured while skiing in the Italian Alps and is nursed to health by the attractive Katrina Amorino. They fall in love, and she moves to his home on Lake Constance, unaware that Germany is on the brink of war. As she arrives, Karl enters the SS Officer Training School and is radicalized by Nazi propaganda. She waits patiently but learns he is implementing Hitler's Final Solution to eliminate Jews and other deplorables. As WWII ends, Karl leaves Berlin and heads home, but finds his parents dead and Katrina missing. His conscience reawakens as he begins his search for Katrina, who is hiding and agonizing over her impetuous decisions - a litany of sorrows that will haunt her for decades to come.

Will Katrina’s and Karl’s conflict be resolved? What becomes of Katrina’s relationship with Luca? Will Katrina ever find her son?

Litany Of Sorrows

Gold Pinnacle Book Achievement Award medal with a star design.

Interpol agent and art history professor Brian O’Sullivan is thrust into a maze of lies, deception, and corruption as he searches for his mother, Katrina, after finding letters sent by her 60 years earlier. Filled with emotion, he hopes she is still alive, but before he can begin, he’s called to Amsterdam by his Interpol team to help solve a WWII art theft mystery. Through a twist of fate, Brian follows a path of anguish, intrigue, and life-threatening danger when the team analyzes pages in a Nazi officer’s diary for clues and determines the art may be hidden in southern Spain.

Will the Interpol team find the stolen art? Will Brian find his mother, Katrina? What becomes of Brian when his past and present collide in a conflict with a previously unknown stepbrother who wants to kill him? How does Grace handle her past? What becomes of Nina?

Gold Pinnacle Book Achievement Award medal with a star design.

Search and Deception

Taken from Carinhall is a tale of intrigue, passion, betrayal, and shocking revelations as Brian O'Sullivan and his Interpol team search to solve a lingering WWII mystery when satellite images reviewed by the CIA suggest gold and art plundered by the Nazis may be hidden on Grand Canary Island.

However, when an unexpected clue reveals the stolen bounty may be in Morocco, Brian and his team race against Russians to locate the missing treasure. Complicating matters are Brian’s feelings about his wife’s sudden death, another theft, and the recent discovery of the DiBotticino family legend. Can Nina solve the mystery? Do the sinister Russians win the race? Can Brian resolve his swirling emotions? Will Brian and Nina’s relationship be strengthened after startling revelations? Does stress bring it to a crashing end?

Gold Pinnacle Book Achievement Award medal with a star design.
Gold and black circular badge with laurel wreath and star, reading 'International Impact Book Awards Winner'.

Taken from Carinhall

The Black Sea Gambit

The Black Sea Gambit plunges Interpol agent Brian O’Sullivan into a deadly race across Europe when his infant daughter is kidnapped and his love partner, Nina von Scholz, is taken hostage. Still recovering from a heart attack, Brian follows a trail from Rotterdam to Kaliningrad to Sochi, where the captives are held by ruthless operatives linked to Ivan Sokolov—a powerful FSB agent, art dealer, and Brian’s half-brother. As whispers of a covert Kremlin plot to seize Crimea emerge from the shadows of Gelendzhik Palace, Brian and Erick join forces with a new CIA team for a high-risk rescue aboard the oligarch-owned superyacht Catherine the Great. But every move draws him deeper into a world of deception, divided loyalties, and impossible choices, where one mistake could cost him his family—and help ignite a war. Fast-paced, emotionally charged, and steeped in international intrigue, The Black Sea Gambit delivers a tense, cinematic thriller about blood ties, betrayal, and the price of survival in the dangerous days before history turns.

Gold Pinnacle Book Achievement Award medal with a star design.