Praise for Magdalen NabbThe best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon MagdalenNabb and her tremendous creation Marshal Salvatore Guarnacc... » 

Praise for Magdalen NabbThe best mystery news in ages is that Soho is restoring to the canon MagdalenNabb and her tremendous creation Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Italianpolice in Florence.Chicago TribuneFirst rate. Engrossing artful and completely satisfying. Nabb is a finewriter.Frank ConroyMagdalen Nabb is so good shes awesome.The Philadelphia InquirerNabb is formidable.Houston PostEveryone is so distracted by the phenomenon of a March snowfall in Florencethat no one notices two foreign girls being abducted from the piazza atgunpoint in broad daylight. Even Marshal Guarnaccia has trouble piecingtogether what he has actually seen tourists in a car holding up a big mapchildren going to school a bus a drug addict on the steps of Santo Spiritochurch a single Sardinian bagpiper in a long black shepherds cloak.One of the girls a Norwegian university student turns up in Pontino avillage in the Chianti hills where she is hospitalized for a concussion a legwound and possible pneumonia. She says she has been released by the kidnappersso she can make contact. The other kidnap victim an American girl is beingheld for ransom. But the marshal thinks shes lying.Kidnapping has become a local racket. It is up to Marshal Guarnaccia to savethe young American and put a stop to a flourishing criminal enterprise. «