Magdalen Nabb

The Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery Series

The Marshal at the Villa Torrini

JACKET NOTES: Up at the Villa Torrini, a well-known writer lies dead without a mark on her body. Down in the city of Florence, Marshal Guarnaccia struggles in vain with a tough new legal system and the hunger pangs of a strict diet.

The case calls for clear thinking, but the Marshal is befuddled by lack of food and humiliated by the sarcasm of the most notorious prosecutor in town. Out of his depth with the literati, but hounding his suspect nonetheless, help comes from a repressed forty-year-old memory of a ragged child in the schoolroom: Vittorio, son of the village prostitute, whose long-ago sufferings finally provide the Marshal with a solution to the sinister mystery at the heart of the Villa Torrini.
(©Penguin Books)

Magdalen Nabb Book List
Death of an Englishman | Death of a Dutchman | Death in Springtime
Death in Autumn | The Marshal and the Murderer
The Marshal and the Madwoman | The Marshal's Own Case
The Marshal Makes His Re port | The Marshal at the Villa Torrini
The Monster of Florence | Property of Blood | Some Bitter Taste
The Innocent | Vita Nuova
The Prosecutor (Non-series w/co-author: Paolo Vagheggi)