Death in Springtime
Magdalen Nabb
ISBN: 9781569474150
Published: October, 2005
Pricing
Paperback $15.95
Description
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 to propose a ransom for the other victim. But...
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 to propose a ransom for the other victim. But the marshal thinks she’s lying. Italian law forbids paying ransom to criminals, and the marshal must find the second girl before her kidnappers decide to end her life.
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“A coupe de maitre, as we say in French... One of the tastiest books I have read for years.”
—Georges Simenon
“This elegant series, which began in 1981 with Death of an Englishman . . . is set in Florence, a city that glows in the Tuscan sun. . . . [His] sense of estrangement accounts for Guarnaccia’s special perspective on strangers, those ‘innocents’ among the living and the dead.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit.”