The Innocent

Magdalen Nabb

ISBN: 9781569474365

Published: October, 2006

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Magdalen Nabb

Florence, Italy

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The body of a woman has been found half-submerged in an ornamental fish pond high up in Florence’s Boboli Gardens. At first, the corpse cannot be identified, rendered unrecognizable by feeding fish, but the Marshal traces other clues to find answers. The victim was a young Japanese woman apprenticed to one of Florence’s legendary cust...

The body of a woman has been found half-submerged in an ornamental fish pond high up in Florence’s Boboli Gardens. At first, the corpse cannot be identified, rendered unrecognizable by feeding fish, but the Marshal traces other clues to find answers. The victim was a young Japanese woman apprenticed to one of Florence’s legendary custom shoemakers, crotchety old Peruzzi. Could he have killed his protégé? Or did jealousy drive his other apprentice to murder? The neighbors have seen Akiko with a lover — a brilliant young carabinieri — who has disappeared. Has he fled to avoid arrest? The marshal must travel to Rome to complete his investigation.

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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
“Neatly plotted and well written. It is a more than sparkling read.
Times Literary Supplement
“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.”
The Washington Post