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The Monster of Florence
Author:
Nabb, Magdalen
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Series:
Florentine mystery, #10
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Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PR6064.A
Print Run: 20000
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ISBN-13: 9781616953249
LCCN: 2013009577
Imprint: Soho Crime
Publisher: Soho Press
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Pub Date: 10/01/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $26.95
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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345 pages ; 22 cm
H 8.6",
W 5.98",
D 1.2",
1.16 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
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TIPS Subjects:
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Mystery/Detective Fiction
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BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery
FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
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LC Subjects:
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Florence (Italy), Fiction
Guarnaccia, Marshal (Fictitious character), Fiction
Mystery fiction
Police, Italy, Florence, Fiction
Serial murders, Italy, Florence, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Florence (Italy), Fiction
Guarnaccia, Marshal (Fictional character), Fiction
Mystery fiction
Serial murders, Fiction
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| Annotations |
| Publisher Annotations | 08/22/2013 |
| 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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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 09/15/2013 |
| Nabb's death, in 2007, left a serious hole in the roster of A-list mystery writers, and the publication of a posthumous novel starring her series hero, Marshal Guarnaccia, of the Florence Carabinieri, is a welcome event for all fans of international crime fiction. The novel, originally published in the UK in 1999, has curiously never appeared in the U.S. It's an odd book in some ways, based on a real-life serial killer, the Monster of Florence, whose reign of terror lasted more than 20 years and who may or may not have been apprehended. Guarnaccia, assigned to a cold-case squad tasked with reopening the still-unsolved murders, spends much of the book reading files (and the marshal is not a reader by nature) and mulling over not only whether the suspect being investigated is in fact the killer but also why he was chosen for the task force. The reliance on so many secondary sources, though no doubt fascinating to those who know the real-life case, tends to slow the narrative flow, but, fortunately, there is more than enough of Guarnaccia's Columbo-like mix of bumbling and shrewdness to please fans. Ott, Bill. 352p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Library Journal | 10/15/2013 |
| First published in 1996 but never released in the United States until now, Nabb's tenth of 14 novels featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri is based on actual crimes that rocked Italy from 1968 to 1985. A killer has terrorized Florence over two decades, assaulting lovers in their cars, murdering them, and mutilating the women's bodies. He's never been apprehended. Now a publicity-happy prosecutor sees the chance to hang these crimes on an ex-convict whose past offenses are so vile that no one will feel sympathy for him when he's charged. Guarnaccia smells a rat and sets about destroying the prosecutor's case. This complicated mystery isn't easy to follow, but tension builds, and Guarnaccia is an appealing character. VERDICT This series was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, so fans who mourned the author's death in 2007 will want this mystery. [For a nonfiction account of this case, see Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi's The Monster of Florence.--Ed.]. David Keymer. 352p. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| New York Times Book Review | 10/20/2013 |
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