Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Madwoman (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
The local "madwoman," a harmless eccentric, has been murdered. Who would want to kill her? To find out, Marshal Guarnaccia must reconstruct her past and piece together the events of a tragic November night twenty years earlier.

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

"First rate. Engrossing and completely satisfying. Nabb is a fine writer." -- Frank Conroy

"The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen Nabb's police procedurals has all to do with the feeling of displacement that haunts her sensitively observed characters... Although Nabb sees beauty in the grand palazzi of Florence and the green hills of Tuscany, she finds meaning in the empty landscapes people walk alone." -- The New York Times Book Review

"The resumption last year of Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia series was cause for celebration among crime-fiction fans... the selfeffacing carabinieri marshal is among the genre's most appealing cops." -- Booklist

"Nabb writes so well, that the story emerges as larger than life." -- Bloomsbury Review

"Elegant in style and elegant of mind." -- Publishers Weekly, starred

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Madwoman. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 1569473404 (October, 2003), 223 p., $12.00.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Madwoman (UK / USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
Marshal Guarnaccia remembered the plump, nude figure, bursting with life and vibrant with anger shaking her fist at her neighbors...
They called her a madwoman, and now she lay lifeless on her kitchen floor. Only a few meager belongings give Guarnaccia any clues to her life. There aren't even any family photographs that might provide a key.

The discovery that someone else is more than a little interested in the death, and a visit to the city's mental hospital, are only the first steps into the madwoman's mysterious past. They lead the marshal down a path that stretches back twentyfive years, to a series of events that changed many lives forever.

"Magdalen Nabb's Florentine series... has offered distinctive mystery novels with an elegant, literate style." -- The Washington Post Book World

"A tale of Simenon-like restraint... and extraordinary tragic power. This resonant read should send you back to Nabb's other Florentine classics, Death of a Dutchman and Death of an Englishman." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Madwoman. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Penguin, ISBN: 0140118810 (December, 1989), 223 p., £2.99, $3.95.