Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Murderer (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
A young Swiss art student is reported missing by her roomate. She commuted by bus to a studio in a village near Florence to learn pottery-making. When her body is found it is assumed that the motive for the murder was sex. But Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri has a different suspicion.

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

"Nabb continues to extend the conventions of the police procedural to suit her own intriguing vision and purpose." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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

"Nabb's Florentine series has offered distinctive mystery novels with 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

"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: The Marshal and the Murderer. A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation. Soho Press, ISBN: 1569472971 (July, 2002), 223 p., $12.00.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Murderer (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
WHEN A FOREIGNER IS MISSING IN ITALY, IT USUALLY MEANS TROUBLE. THIS TIME, IT MEANS MURDER.
A young Swiss art student has been reported missing and Marshal Guarnaccia must travel to the small town where she was studying to find out the truth about her disappearance. When her body is found, it appears that she was the victim of a sex-related crime. But Guarnaccia -- who comes from a small town himself-suspects that a local feud with roots in the horrors and betray -- as of World War II may play an important part in the solution to the crime...

"Nabb continues to extend the conventions of the police procedural to suit her own intriguing vision and purpose." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Murderer. A Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140106782 (November, 1988), 196 p., $3.95.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Murderer (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
She had come to report that her friend was missing. They were both Swiss, teachers; they had come to Florence to learn Italian and stayed on, working illegally. The missing girl had worked mornings as a potter in a small local town. No one had seen her since Friday lunch-time. It was now Monday afternoon.

Marshal Guarnaccia contacted his opposite number in the little town and arranged to visit. He found a big, jovial Carabinieri officer from. Rome, rather more than life-size, still struggling after a year to understand the complexities of the inbred community around him. When the girl's body is discovered under a heap of potsherds he is completely out of his depth.

It is Marshal Guarnaccia whose gently persistent inquiries at last uncover the truth, not only about the two Swiss girls but about the wartime tragedies which no one wants to talk about. These intertwine strangely with the present and in the end prove strong enough to choke the life out of a girl.

Readers of Magdalen Nabb's previous novels need no introduction to her delightful Marshal, who here tracks down an unexpected murderer.

Magdalen Nabb: The Marshal and the Murderer. Collins Crime Club, ISBN: 0002321173 (April, 1987), 200 p., £8.95.