Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter．In 1975 she abandoned pottery,sold her home and her car，andmoved to Florence withher son，knowing nobody and speaking no Italian．She has lived there ever since，and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children’s author．  

It takes a writer as good as Magdalen Nabb to remind us how subtle the art of the mystery can be．She does make it look easy,though New York Times

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Former model Olivia Birkett,the American widow of the Florentine Count Ugo Brunamonti,has been violently kidnapped.Head of a successful fashion house,she is an obvious target for the Sardinian kidnap gangs nominally engaged in raising sheep in the Tuscan hills,Even though the government"s official policy is not to permit payment of ransom...

But when Olivia"s daughter reports her disappearance,Marshal Guarnaccia begins to suspect something more sinister.And as he is drawn ever further into the intricate politics of the wealty Brunamonti family,Guarnaccia starts to wonder whether Obivia reassy was the intended victim...

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Death of an Englishman

Some Bitter Taste

The Marshal Makes His Report

Doctorde Evidence