'Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best'

Sunday Times

'The intrigue is absorbing, and the Florentine background <b>brilliantly portrayed</b>... We fans...are as fascinated by [Guarnaccia's] diet as by his deductions.'

Evening Standard

'A <b>perfect</b> example of crime-and-pleasure... so cunningly plotted that it is only at the end that you realise that not one strand of the intricate tapestry has been superfluous...'

- Antonia Fraser, Spectator

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'<b>Wonderfully satisfying</b>'<i> </i>

Daily Mail

There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. So the suicide of a Dutch jeweller looked like an open and shut case. Certainly there were some slight discrepancies. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...
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There was enough trouble around to keep the police busy for months. All over Florence tourists were being robbed, cars stolen, and somewhere in the city terrorists were quietly at work. But the only witnesses were a blind man, and an old woman given to vicious lying. Yet the Marshal felt uneasy - it was all so conveniently simple...
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'Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best'
Classic Italian crime fiction by the Donna Leon of Florence, the acclaimed Magdalen Nabb ('Credible, classy and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best' Sunday Times).

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099489917
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Arrow Books Ltd
Vekt
155 gr
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
110 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947. She has lived in Florence since 1975 and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.