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Learn moreBased 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 to try to track down a vicious serial killer, he feels out of his league. To make matters worse, the prosecutor 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.
Magdalen Nabb (1947–2007) was born in Lancashire. She moved to Florence in 1975 and pursued a dual career as crime writer and children’s author. Her books for both adults and children have been translated into many languages, including French, German, Japanese, Flemish, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, and Croatian.
David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, performing coast-to-coast in lead roles of plays by a variety of playwrights, from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard to Steve Martin. He has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years, during which time he has read the works of such authors as Jules Verne, Henry Adams, John Irving, Michael Chabon, and John Lescroart. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. David was a resident actor/director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992. He currently lives in New York with his wife, narrator and actress Susan Ericksen, and his children, Mario and Elena.
Reviews
“Good plot, well-concealed clues, and the whole put together with wit and elegance.”
“It is so good to walk with [Magdalen Nabb] through the animated streets of Florence, with its carabinieri, its ordinary people, its little trattorie, and even its noisy tourists. It’s all so alive, you can hear the noises, smell the smells, see that morning mist on the fast flowing Arno…Bravissimo!”
“Nabb’s account of the details is freshly horrifying, as are many of the characters who people the book. The vicious, incestuous suspect is…so vivid on the page that the reader feels the need of a shower after each of his many appearances…One of the many wonderful things about this book is the impossibility of distinguishing between fact and fiction, but that is, after all, the nature of justice in Italy.”
“A haunting thriller where past and present collide, where ambition brutalizes those who have most need of compassion, and where lies are often more credible that truth”
“Credible, classy, and compelling, this is crime fiction at its best.”
“A brilliant detective story.”
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