Series: Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery
by Author Magdalen Nabb
The Monster of Florence (2013)
This review is based on the FirstReads copy I received and devoured less than a week after finding out I'd won a copy. Based on a chilling true crime and the author's extensive research, this book in the Marshal Guarnaccia series was the only detective novel by Magdalen Nabb not previously publis...
Death in Autumn (1985)
The Marshal Guarnaccia detective series is so enjoyable. I have spent the past few weeks slogging through the first three books of an historical mystery series and have taken a vow not to ever read books I don’t care for. People have different guidelines for deciding whether to finish a book; I’m...
The Marshal Makes His Report (2004)
8th in the Marshal Guarnaccia series set in Florence.[return][return]The book opens with the marshal trying to write his report on the events of June 24th. In his memory, he is looking down from a tower in an old palazzo at a body crumpled in the courtyard. A woman kneels beside the body, waili...
Death of a Dutchman (2005)
The 2nd book in the Marshall Guarnaccia series, set in Florence. [return][return]The plodding beginning is set in a torridly hot period of time in Florence. Among reports of an Instamatic camera stolen in Pisa and various Fiat 500s, the Marshall responds to a call from a 91 year old woman about ...
Some Bitter Taste (2003)
Number 12 in the Marshal Guranaccia series set in Florence, Some Bitter Taste is outstanding. The pace is quick, the plot intriguing, and the characters believable and sympathetic. The last quarter of the book is a real page-turner; it was too good to put down until I had finished it.[return] ...
The Marshal and the Murderer (2003)
Magdalen Nabb writes about a Carabinairi Marshal who reigns over a small neighborhood in Florence. If Commisario Brunetti is an intellectual blueblood in Venice, Marshal Guarnaccio is a middle-class investigator who lives with his family in the Carabinairi station that he oversees.He doesn't give...
Property of Blood (2003)
RATING: 3.75The head of a prominent Italian fashion house, Contesssa Olivia Brunamonti is an American who married an Italian count. Largely by her own efforts, she has built a comfortable life for herself and her two adult children. A gang of kidnappers has targeted her daughter, Caterina, but ...
Death of an Englishman (2003)
[My comments are taken from a mailing list discussion and as such contain spoilers!] [on the setting] I'm about halfway through and I'm finding that Florence is coming more alive the further I read. I like the way that I don't feel like I'm on a sightseeing tour but that it's the accumulation of...