The Marshal and the Murderer
Magdalen Nabb
ISBN: 9781569472972
Published: July, 2003
Pricing
Paperback $12.00
Description
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...
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 betrayals of World War II may play an important part in the solution to the crime.
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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.”