Magdalen Nabb: Death in Autumn (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Death in Autumn finds Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia, a Sicilian oflicer of the carabinieri stationed in Florence, investigating the death of a woman found one dawn floating in the Arno clad only in a fur coat... How and why did she die? Was it suicide? Or murder?

Praise for Magdalen Nabb's Florentine Mysteries
"The best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon Magdalen Nabb and her tremendous creation, Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Italian police in Florence." -- Chicago Tribune

"Nabbs Florentine series has offered distinctive mystery novels wich an elegant, literate style... Her novels glow with the warmth and charm of their Florentine setting." -- Washington Post Book World

"A keen sense of setting, character and plot." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Guarnaccia continues to impress as the most convincingly human of modern detectives and his creator as a writer of deep and rare dimensions." -- The Observer

"Nabb is formidable... an Italian reality tourists rarely glimpse." -- Houston Post

"The author's Florence-based police procedurals get better all the time." -- Kirkus Reviews

Magdalen Nabb: Death in Autumn. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 1569472963 (July, 2002), 158 p., $11.00.

Magdalen Nabb: Death in Autumn (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence Carabinieri can almost always sense when somebody's lying. Unfortunately, he thinks the two young Swedish tourists are telling the truth when they claim to have seen a body floating in the river.

There's a body, all right -- a woman of about 50, naked except for an expensive fur coat. Who could she be? No woman of that age has been reported missing. The coat seems to be of foreign origin, so perhaps she is not Italian.

A week goes by, and nobody comes forward to claim the body or to report a missing wife or mother. It's only when Guarnaccia makes a routine inquiry at the Riverside Hotel that he finds the answer to at least part of his puzzle. A forty-eight-year-old woman has been missing for eight days, and the hotel just assumed she had run out without paying her bill.

Now Guarnaccia knows the identity of his victim, but he must still discover how and why she died. When did she arrive in Florence? Why has nobody reported her missing? Where did she get her money? With his usual methodical police work and a fine instinct for ferreting out the strange truth, Marshal moves closer to the shocking answers.

Readers who have savored the Marshal's adventures in Death of an Englishman, Death of a Dutchman, and Death in Springtime will welcome this latest addition to Magdalen Nabb's superb Florentine mystery series.

MAGDALEN NABB has lived in Florence since 1975. Originally a potter, she now writes full time and is at work on a major thriller. Her play, Florence of the North, was produced professionally in 1979.

Magdalen Nabb: Death in Autumn. A Florentine Mystery. Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN: 0684183374 (October, 1985), 158 p., $12.95.