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The kidnapping for ransom of a beautiful American-born contessa poses Marshal Guarnaccia's gravest challenge.... More

A young Swiss art student who commutes to a small town near Florence is reported missing. Then her body is found. Was it a sex crime? Guarnaccia suspects a local feud with its roots in World War II.... More

There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepa... More

Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case--a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades.Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri--the local Florentine police--usually involves restoring stolen handbags ... More

Praise for Magdalen Nabb: “The best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon Magdalen Nabb and her tremendous crea-tion, Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Italian police in Florence.”—Chicago Tribune “First rate. Engrossing, artful, and completely satisfying. Nabb is a f... More

Everybody hated Lulu alive, and Lulu dead was even less of an attractive proposition. Nobody wanted this nauseating and impossible case, especially not Marshal Guarnaccia, forced to investigate an alien, sordid side of Florence he didn't understand.... More

It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu (which has left the Florentine caribinieri short-handed) and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Vi... More

The insular San Frediano quarter keeps silent about the death of a policeman's girlfriend.... More

When the body of Buongianni Corsi is found lying face down in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ulderighi there seems no doubt in the minds of his family that his death was an accident. The Marchesa, wife of the dead man, will entertain no other possibility and her power and status in the city means tha... More

Marshal Guarnaccia must find the killer of a transvestite prostitute.... More

Praise for the Marshal Guarnaccia series: #x1C;The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen Nabb#x19;s police procedurals has all to do with the feeling of displacement that haunts her sensitively observed characters. #x1D;-The New York Times Book Review A well-known writer is found dead in the Villa Tor... More

Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia is a decent policeman who meant to follow up on Signora Sara Hirsch's complaint that an intruder had been in her apartment. But by the time he's dealt with the other cases handed to him at that moment, the signora has been murdered.... More

The body of a woman, clad only in a fur coat and jewelry, is found floating in the Arno at dawn. Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florentine carabinieri identifies her as a missing hotel guest. But how and why did she die? Was it a bizarre suicide? Or murder?... More