Rome. Turmoil in the Eternal City. The pope has resigned and disappeared without a trace. Nobody knows if he is even still alive.

At the same time, his closest confidants are being murdered in the most gruesome ways. As the conclave convenes to elect a successor to the Holy See, Vatican reporter Peter Adam begins to search for the missing pope. His search leads him to a mysterious underground religious fraternity that has been working against the church for centuries. Its members base their beliefs on a medieval prophecy: He who shall succeed the current pope will call himself Peter II. And he will be the last to hold the See of St. Peter.

Is the apocalypse at hand? And what will it bring? The fulfillment of mankind’s oldest fantasies, or the end of the world?

Written by award-winning screenwriter and author Mario Giordano, Apocalypsis is gripping and explosive. What starts out as a sophisticated Vatican conspiracy soon develops into a uniquely intense and spectacular thriller. Apocalypsis is a serial novel told in twelve installments per book. The entire saga is revealed throughout three complete novels; this is the complete first novel.

Rome, May 2011. After the shocking abdication and disappearance of Pope John Paul III, close confidants of the pope are being murdered. Peter Adam, a German journalist, and his American colleague, Loretta, begin to investigate the case. Their only lead is a book about mystical symbols predicting an unsettling event which is to take place in ten days’ time.

While the Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Menendez, already campaigns for the coming conclave, Peter Adam is still searching for the missing pope. Hoping for support from Don Luigi, the Vatican’s chief exorcist, Peter makes the acquaintance of the young nun Maria. Signs are manifested pointing to the fourth prophecy of Fatima. A trail leads to an old monastery in Sicily.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Peter and Maria decipher the formula found on Seth’s microchip. Peter begins to understand how Seth is planning to bring about the end of the world. In the catacombs underneath the Vatican, Cardinal Menendez loses God for all eternity, while Peter and Maria desperately try to intercept a courier transporting an alchemical substance from Kathmandu to Rome.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

On the eve of the conclave, Peter learns some shocking truths from former Pope Franz Laurenz about an ancient evil working towards the destruction of the world. When the storming of the “Temple of Equinox” turns into a disaster, Peter realizes that there is only one chance to avert the catastrophe: he has to meet with his arch enemy, Nikolas.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

While the College of Cardinals, isolated from the outside works, casts it first ballot, Maria frees Peter from a terrible imprisonment. Franz Laurenz and Seth meet for a duel to the death at Castel Sant’Angelo, and in the necropolis underneath the Vatican, Peter and Maria search frantically for the Seven Bowls of Wrath.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments.

While the man called Nikolas continues his violent murder spree, Maria comes to Peter’s rescue in Sicily. New clues found by Don Luigi require Peter and Maria to break into the sealed papal apartment. There they find a mysterious relic, which is later stolen by Peter’s colleague, Loretta. When Peter goes to confront Loretta in her hotel, he is met by a shocking sight.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Peter is interrogated by the Italian Police and tortured by secret service agents. Without any recollection of what happened during the previous few hours, he begins to doubt himself. After his escape, he saves Maria from an attempt on her life by Nikolas. They both know that they are in mortal danger, and there is only one way left for Peter to prove his innocence.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Aided by Don Luigi and the Saudi Arabian ambassador, Peter and Maria arrive at Clairvaux where they search for the full text of the prophecy of St. Malachy. Meanwhile in Rome, a young chemist is murdered after conducting a series of tests on the relic from the papal apartment. In Avignon, Peter and Maria detect hidden symbols pointing to the order of the Knights Templar.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

A 12th century letter confirms Peter and Mary’s suspicion that the Templars were in possession of a terrible secret that is now threatening the Church. In a daredevil operation, Peter makes his way to a mysterious island mentioned in the document. Meanwhile in Rome, Urs Buhler, captain of the Swiss Guards, comes across a shadowy syndicate and the name of Aleister Crowley.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

One year ago: while working on a magazine article about excavations in the Karakorum desert, Peter and his girlfriend Ellen meet Edward Kelly, a shady self-made archaeologist who boasts of having made a sensational discovery. At the same time, archaeologists in Rome find an ancient crypt with mysterious writings and symbols, and Pope John Paul III has a revelation.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Urs Buhler makes a horrible discovery on the forbidden plague island in the lagoon of Venice. On the so-called “Island of the Light” in the Mediterranean, Peter Adam is kept prisoner in a psychiatric institution. In Montpellier, Maria uncovers the secret of the relic from the papal apartment, and realizes that the catastrophe is imminent.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

While in Rome preparations are being made for the conclave, Peter Adam, still imprisoned on this “Island of the Light,” learns more about the murder spree and the pope’s disappearance. Edward Kelly offers his help in escaping from the island but demands a terrible price. Maria’s insight into human nature is put to a hard test.

Apocalypse is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypse is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Cardinal Menendez wants to be pope, at any prize. A man by the name of Aleister Crowley makes him a tempting offer. Peter has an eye-opening encounter with Nikolas. Accompanied by Maria, he takes a flight to Cologne to solve the mystery of his heritage. After meeting with his foster parents, Peter receives a phone call from the mysterious Seth.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel in thirteen episodes designed and developed for digital devices: as an app, an e-book, and for audio download. Apocalypsis is published in weekly installments. Episode 0 is available for free on all platforms.

Peter Adam wakes up on an oil rig to discover he has survived a mortal injury, and learns that the Vatican’s chief exorcist, Don Luigi, has been elected pope. The news is worrying, not least because it appears Pope Peter II is doing everything possible to fulfill the prophecy of Malachi.

Following a migraine attack, Peter wakes up to find himself in Cologne Cathedral after a gap in his life of five days of which he has no memory. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose around him …

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Urs Buhler leaves Kathmandu to try to help Peter, only to come across Marina lying in a strange coma in a Buddhist monastery. Peter frees Nicholas, and together they break into the secret Area 23 to uncover a shocking secret.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Franz Laurenz does a deal with Pope Peter II to save the life of his daughter. The pope has found out where the mysterious wooden box is hidden and has sent Maria there to find it. Brother Anselmo successfully hacks into Seth’s CCTV surveillance system allowing Franz Laurenz to watch powerlessly as Peter and Nicholas meet their fate in Area 23.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Marina meets Sheikh al-Husseini at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem while Maria comes across the ancient secret of the Templars at Oak Island in the United States, only to have it immediately stolen from her by Kelly and Pope Peter II. Maria, Laurenz, and Nakashim are left tied up on the island next to a red quicksilver bomb. All too late, Maria and Laurenz realize what a terrible threat the Templars’ secret poses. But Peter II has begun to realize it too. At a papal mass on St. Peter’s Square the Prophecy of Malachi finally comes true. The end-time has begun.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Back in Rome, Peter discovers his entire body covered in an enigmatic tattoo, including images of a man with the head of a lion. He still has no memory of the five missing days. When he discovers that his brother Nicholas has apparently been murdered in Cologne, he fears he himself might have killed him.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Peter and Maria, trying to decipher the meaning of his tattoo, find themselves in the Pantheon in Rome where they stumble on the body of a Roman legionary with one of amulets and a document in ancient Mayan in his hand. They then come across a library of occult books where they find Franz Laurenz, the former pope.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Peter, paralyzed by a nerve poison given him by Franz Laurenz, hears that the occult library under the Pantheon contains an ancient encrypted book of evil. Incredulously he also discovers that he isn’t in fact Peter but Nicholas! Laurenz and his disciples are moving him from the library to a safe place when they are set upon by the Bearers of the Light.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

In the Himalayas a young Buddhist monk makes a horrific discovery. Peter, trapped in the body of his brother, realizes his tattoo is the key to deciphering the book of Dzyan, a catalogue of evil. Simultaneously, a young Jesuit hacker in the Vatican discovers a conspiracy and Yoko Tanaka manages to decipher parts of Peter’s tattoo.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Two weeks earlier: Nicholas, in Cologne Cathedral waiting for instructions from Seth, falls in love with Marina, a mysterious gypsy. When he senses that Peter is in deadly danger in Rome, he finds himself transported into his brother’s body. Peter, in the body of Nicholas, is on his way back to Cologne with Urs Buhler when he discovers another amulet on a statue of a Black Madonna. The symbol leads him to Burma where hell is waiting for him.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Peter Adam and Urs Buhler discover the crucified Felipe Galan in the monastery of Santa Maria de la Real. Meanwhile Nicholas abducts Maria and hands her over to the Bearers of the Light. Back in Santiago de Compostela Peter and Buhler discover clues which lead them to an abandoned chapel in which they discover Christianity’s best-kept secret.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Before Peter can work out the true meaning of the amulet they find in the ossuary, he is tracked down by Nakashima. Buhler has betrayed him. Nakashima makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Meanwhile, Brother Anselmo in the Vatican tried to send a warning via coded email and sets off the rubus flammeus virus written for the previous pope. Muslim leader Sheikh al-Husseini, unable to resist any longer, goes to meet the pope in suite 306. The chief rabbi arrives shortly after to make a horrible discovery.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

Nakashima, flying with Peter to Nepal, offers him a drug that will restore his lost memory. He takes it and at last understands the connections and finds out who his biological father really is. Back in Rome, Franz Laurenz learns that Maria is in the hands of Seth. Nakashima offers to help him but demands the unimaginable in return.

Apocalypsis is a serial novel designed and developed for digital devices.

The latest installment in Mario Giordano’s best-selling series of charming mysteries, starring Sicily’s most glamorous gumshoe, Auntie Poldi (“Long may she reign.” *)

*Kirkus Reviews, starred review

All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep: John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged lying cheat of a husband.

Not only is John’s sudden reappearance putting a kink in Poldi’s dreamy love affair with Montana, but his presence also comes with a plea for help–and unwanted clashes with the Mafia.

Where is John’s half-brother? What is the ten-million-dollar “it” that John’s brother was last seen with, which has both the Sicilian and theTanzanian mobs in a frenzy? With only a postcard that has a phone number and a name, “Handsome Antonio,” on the back, Auntie Poldi hops begrudgingly (albeit with a great deal of gumption and panache) back into the saddle (in this case, an immaculate red Maserati Cabrio from the eighties with cream leather upholstery). The faster she finds Handsome Antonio, the sooner she can get John Owenya out of her hair and her love life. But the people Poldi discovers along the way may very well knock her immaculate wig askew.

There’s only one Auntie Poldi: bewigged, cursing in Bavarian, and knocking back a wee shot of grappa as a pre-breakfast aperitif. . . or is there? No one is as they seem (and sound) in this hilarious new mystery featuring Sicily’s sultriest sleuth.

Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace — a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she’s a suspect in their case.

Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to be Poldi, Isolde Oberreiter, of Torre Archirafi?

Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair gone sour, someone in the town has been spraying graffiti death threats on her front door, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. And even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers that the case hinges on a lost Madonna statue, stolen years ago from the pope himself.

Forza, Poldi! With a pair of mysterious twins dogging her every move and a mandate to maintain sobriety, will Poldi be able to find the lost statue in time, and survive her sixty-first birthday?

Auntie Poldi, sassy, brassy and sixty, moves to Sicily for a quiet alcohol-fuelled retirement. A murder spoils her plans. This is the first novel in a charming new mystery series set in Sicily and laced with Italian sensuality and humor. It features an amateur sleuth, the sassy and foul-mouthed Auntie Poldi. Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view, but fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case. Poldi soon falls for the gorgeous Commissario Montana who has been assigned to lead the case. They form an investigative-and romantic-partnership. The delightful details of this romance, and the extreme awkwardness of Poldi’s retelling it to her mortified nephew, are some of the novel’s many high points. Sicily, a vivid backdrop, is an island of people obsessed with food. They talk passionately about which remote village produces the best olives, pistachio ice cream, oyster mushrooms, mandarins, and marzipan, and about which restaurant serves the best pasta al nero di sepia or canolli a la crema di ricotta. And there is never a direct reference to the mafia (“an invention of those fascists in the North”), even when confronted with murders committed with sawn-off shotguns.

A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers. Wine and murder – nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi’s love of the chase.Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.What to others might seem a series of misfortunes – the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog – is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino’s murder.Poldi has tasted blood. No one is above suspicion. And trouble will surely follow…

Digital Series. Episode 1: New York City. A Chinese woman was brutally murdered and Jeremiah Cotton, a young cop with the NYPD, just can’t let go. He suspects that the woman is the victim of a serial killer, but no one believes him and he is taken off the case. While carrying out an unauthorized investigation, Cotton encounters a division of the FBI whose existence no one knows about: the “G-Team.” Stubborn and persistent, Cotton asks uncomfortable questions about the mysterious unit–and runs afoul of Special Agent Philippa “Phil” Decker in the process. When he narrowly escapes an attempt on his life, Cotton realizes that this is no ordinary killer hunt and the hotter the case is getting, the more determined he is to stay involved.

A new legend is born! Cotton FBI is a remake of a world-famous cult series with more than one billion copies sold and appears bi-weekly with a self-contained story in each audiobook episode.