New York: Soho Crime. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Lightly bumped corner. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with black spine imprinted in metallic red with title and author. Black endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 345 pages. A Florentine Mystery, No. 10. Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case—a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades.Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri—the local Florentine police—usually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work with the police in trying to track down a vicious serial killer, he feels out of his league. To make matters worse, the Proc he must report to is Simonetti, the same man he knows drove an innocent man to suicide several years earlier in his blind quest for a conviction. The Marshal can't let the stress of the case get to him if he wants to make sure justice is upheld. .

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Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire and trained as a potter. In 1975, she left her old life behind and moved with her son to Florence, where she knew no one and even though she didn't speak any Italian, but where she fell in love with the local setting. Her Marshal Guarnaccia series, which has been translated into ten languages, was inspired by a real local marshal she befriended in the tiny pottery town of Montelupo Fiorentino. Nabb wrote children's fiction and crime novels until her death in 2007.

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Bookseller: Storbeck's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 609030
Title: The Monster of Florence
Author: Nabb, Magdalen
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1616953241
ISBN 13: 9781616953249
Publisher: Soho Crime
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2013
Keywords: FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Mystery/Detective;

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