[My comments are taken from a mailing list discussion and as such contain spoilers!] [on the setting] I'm about halfway through and I'm finding that Florence is coming more alive the further I read. I like the way that I don't feel like I'm on a sightseeing tour but that it's the accumulation of...
RATING: 3.75The head of a prominent Italian fashion house, Contesssa Olivia Brunamonti is an American who married an Italian count. Largely by her own efforts, she has built a comfortable life for herself and her two adult children. A gang of kidnappers has targeted her daughter, Caterina, but ...
Magdalen Nabb writes about a Carabinairi Marshal who reigns over a small neighborhood in Florence. If Commisario Brunetti is an intellectual blueblood in Venice, Marshal Guarnaccio is a middle-class investigator who lives with his family in the Carabinairi station that he oversees.He doesn't give...
Number 12 in the Marshal Guranaccia series set in Florence, Some Bitter Taste is outstanding. The pace is quick, the plot intriguing, and the characters believable and sympathetic. The last quarter of the book is a real page-turner; it was too good to put down until I had finished it.[return] ...
Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone, even Marshal Guarnaccia, who is unsure of what he has actually witnessed. One of the girls turns up in a village in the Chianti, claiming the kidnappers have released her t...
The 2nd book in the Marshall Guarnaccia series, set in Florence. [return][return]The plodding beginning is set in a torridly hot period of time in Florence. Among reports of an Instamatic camera stolen in Pisa and various Fiat 500s, the Marshall responds to a call from a 91 year old woman about ...
Out giving his wife driving lessons, Marshal Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri witnesses a disturbance in the streets involving a local eccentric, “crazy Clementina.” When the woman is found dead in her apartment soon after the incident, of an apparent suicide, the marshal is puzzled and immediately ...
8th in the Marshal Guarnaccia series set in Florence.[return][return]The book opens with the marshal trying to write his report on the events of June 24th. In his memory, he is looking down from a tower in an old palazzo at a body crumpled in the courtyard. A woman kneels beside the body, waili...
The ninth installment in the popular series featuring Florentine Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia has the portly policeman investigating an accident involving a famous author. (Nabb's) scenes are so cleverly constructed that even her most bizarre characters seem fully formed and touchingly human.--Ch...
The Marshal Guarnaccia detective series is so enjoyable. I have spent the past few weeks slogging through the first three books of an historical mystery series and have taken a vow not to ever read books I don’t care for. People have different guidelines for deciding whether to finish a book; I’m...
This review is based on the FirstReads copy I received and devoured less than a week after finding out I'd won a copy. Based on a chilling true crime and the author's extensive research, this book in the Marshal Guarnaccia series was the only detective novel by Magdalen Nabb not previously publis...
‘Ah. I was about to send someone to look for you. I have to go out shortly. Come in.’ The Marshal obeyed. ‘Take a seat. I got your message first thing this morning—I imagine you’ve been pretty busy since then. I saw the Prosecutor just now as he was leaving. He was very co...
‘But you took her name?’ ‘Took her name? As far as I knew, somebody was drowning. What would you have done? Started taking down her name and address and date of birth?’ ‘All right, all right. I’m not criticising, just asking.’ ‘And I’m telling you. I’m a gardener, not a policeman, for goodness’ s...
If nothing else, he listened, or was silent anyway, because he didn’t know what to say, where to start, and because everything that had happened up to now meant something different to what it had meant before. He needed to look at all of it again in peace but, for now, scenes were flashing at ran...
